Ricardo Miguel

Hernández

When the memory turns to dust, for me as an artist it is a reflective process in which I combine empirical, psychological and critical things. I conceive the random gesture between the selection of a certain photographic document and the preconception in invoice of different stories, as a rescue practice where the apparently disposable, old or residual bear the weight of a memory that is presented to me as a pretext to recontextualize and resemantize the frozen story on photographic paper. I appropriate myself of a found testimony that covers the twenties to the eighties of the last century; I archive it, classify it and transmute it into a new metaphor. 

I conscientiously manipulate, meticulously elaborate other realities, juxtaposed, assembled, mutilated, where I do not intend to disguise the traces of time on paper, nor the seams resulting from these photo collages. I consider myself as a restless prowler, a visual archaeologist who operates technically and discursively on elasticity of a record of reality; an original story that I reactivate through the conception of an aesthetic ontology that encompasses the ideological, the social, the political, the religious, the familiar… 

This Series is a kind of built and resurrected testament in which meanings and mixtures of a culture such as the Cuban one, of mixed race and singular are distilled, which delights even today in nostalgia and sustenance of an astonishing and worn out ideal. I assemble landscapes, portraits, customs scenes or abstracts motifs to reformulate that individual/social memory; to enrich that heritage many times found within a Cuban family; and to offer a possible interstice that reminds us of who we are and how we see ourselves from the contemporary artistic debate.

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Untitled, 2018
Analog collage, 9.9 x 7.7 cm
Hit by the sun, 2018-2022
Analog collage, 9.1 x 11.3 cm
Untitled, 2022
Analog collage, 9.1 x 10.8 cm
Another star that the night took, 2018-2022
Analog collage, 8.6 x 10.5 cm
Untitled, 2018
Analog collage, 14.6 x 9.9 cm
Untitled, 2021
Analog collage, 11.3 x 8.7 cm
The Ecstasy of Isidro, 2022
Analog collage, 8.8 x 14.4 cm
A black cloud over the waterfall in the forest, 2019    
Analog collage, 8.3 x 11.5 cm
Untitled, 2021
Analog collage, 13.3 x 12.1 cm
Untitled, 2021
Analog collage, 8 x 10.9 cm
Untitled, 2021
Analog collage, 11.5 x 7 cm
I miss you mama, 2019
Analog collage, 9.6 x 8.7 cm
Untitled, 2019
Analog collage, 7.8 x 6.3 cm
Skull and meringues, 2019-2022
Analog collage, 9.2 x 8.3 cm
Land!, 2020
Analog collage 9,6 x 9cm