ARTIST STATEMENT
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Anaida Hernandez is a contemporary multimedia artist. Primary medium sculpture and painting. Born and raised in Puerto Rico,
Anaida's work is characterized by addressing human rights issues: femicide, migration, environment, identity and coloniality. Anaida Hernández's research-based practice investigates the intersections of history, material culture and politics through a wide range of media that include painting, sculpture, printmaking, installations and documentaries, among others. Anaida is considered by art critics as one of the pioneers in addressing the issue of violence against women in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American art. 1 Until death do us part, 1994, is a memorial installation, an icon of Hernández's work where the artist reminds us of the femicides in Puerto Rico, when Law 54 on Domestic Violence was signed in 1989.
Anaida considers herself a builder and painter attracted by archaeology, mythology, dreams and symbols. The textures of Anaida's paintings exemplify the inventive technique found in her work. Hernández experiments with multiple materials to perfect her artistic creation techniques with unique results. These provide the basis for her to cover her canvases with a plaster that Hernández calls Concretexturas and with which she "empañeta" his canvases and creates light and resistant surfaces. This plaster is composed of multiple materials such as cement, sand, lime, marble powder, mineral and natural pigments, brick powder and fiberglass.
Anaida Hernández challenges and seeks to break the limits of art, translating her experience and sensations through a variety of processes. Hernández is influenced by the Situationists and the art of ancient cultures. And in the creative process she uses fundamental concepts such as Chance, Drift and Fortuitous Encounters which she calls Anaida 's ADEF (Azar Deriva Encuentro Fortuito) .
Hernández democratizes art with her pieces by looking for new approaches and tactics to break with the social and institutional divisions that separate art from everyday life. As an important component and strategy, Anaida invites the public to participate in a physical interaction with the work through the artistic activity of the game 2.
Anaida considers her work as Affective Conceptual Art, conceptual in idea and affective in image.
Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is currently working on a series of large-scale paintings and pictorial sculptures. In this series, Anaida considers nature and the landscape as a code to decipher the riddles of identity, power and colonialism that provoke a subtle but powerful visualization of the ecological crisis of the neocolonial landscape .
1 Quiñones Otal, Emilia (2015 ) , "Transversality between patriarchal violence and colonial violence inthe arts of Puerto Rico". Journal of the Puerto Rican Institute (111):162-169.p. 167.
2 Anaida Hernandez: Illegal games/Illegal games
