Abel Hernandez
Tijuana, 1992
Abel Hernández has a degree in visual arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana campus. He was selected as a scholarship recipient for the Inter-cambios residency in the framework of the Havana Biennial (2019). He has been part of multiple group exhibitions and presentations. His most recent presentation is titled Ceremonia Fronteriza para la Pura Raza at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo y las Culturas de Oaxaca (2024). He is founder and co-director of the collective Tijuana Performera. He was editor of the first Tijuana Performera fanzine Escritos de Performance (Tijuana, 2024). His work is developed mainly in the discipline of performance. He lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
statement
As an artist I see it as essential to collaborate, play within a field of possibilities and move from one discipline to another, however the central axis of my work and creative exploration navigates in performance art, studies of the body and spaces. I use plastic as a process tool; dance, theater, among other visual arts techniques for performative and pedagogical creation.
My work talks about mobility, identity, Kuir, sex, politics, human relations, non-spaces, witchcraft and satire together, masculinity, crisis, party…I think that Tijuana always shelters me in a world where every image is possible, something like multi-color pop kitsch.
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