Berenice Hernández: Selected works, 2018-2023
In Berenice Hernández’s work, the act of constructing and deconstructing is fundamental. It starts with layers of clay that she methodically turns into large blocks. She then cuts the blocks into smaller pieces. Sometimes, the cuts are clean and precise; other times, they are crude, resulting in blocks that crumble into fragments. She then uses the blocks as a library of materials for her sculptures, ready to be used in a never-ending cycle of building, deconstruction and rebuilding.
An important part of her practice is the idea that solidity is illusory. Everything shifts. Her sculptures are as much about the cracks, the broken lines, and the flakes that fall off as they are about the structures themselves. For her, what is lost is as present as what remains. Her work then becomes an architecture of what was, what might have been, and what is.
Captions
- Det obevakade ögonblicket, 2022, porcelain, stoneware, glaze, kiln shelf, 28 x 13 x 27 cm
- Forms of departure I, 2023, glaze and stoneware, 8 x 19 x 8 cm
- Forms of departure II, 2023, glaze and stoneware, 20 x 14.5 x 4 cm
- Tiden gick in…, 2022, porcelain, stoneware, glaze, 16 x 27 x 16 cm
- Återsken, 2021, porcelain, stoneware, wood, glaze, 58 x 14.5 x 20 cm
- Circular, 2019, porcelain, stoneware, 20.5 x 14.5 x 12 cm
- Fault line, 2018, Stoneware and porcelain. 18.5 x 15 x 8.5 cm
- Measures of the void, 2021, porcelain, stain, 17.5 x 32 x 29 cm
- Observations on the means to carry on I, 2019, stoneware, 14 x 40 x 7.5 cm
- Station I, 2018, porcelain and stoneware, 13 x 22 x 3.5 cm
- Station II, 2018, porcelain and stoneware, 13 x 22 x 3.5 cm
- Observations on the means to carry on III, 2019, porcelain 24 x 16.5 x 8 cm
- The opening window, 2020, porcelain and plaster, 34 x 24.5 x 7 cm
- Till knappheten, 2021, porcelain, stains, glaze, 40 x 38 x 14 cm
- Tingens frånvaro, 2022, stoneware, glaze, 19.5 x 7 x 1.5 cm
- Untitled Installation, 2018, porcelain and stoneware, 110 x 50 x 60 cm
- Untitled, 2018, stoneware and porcelain, 27.5 x 17 x 8.5 cm
