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Ramiro Hernandez
Prism at Harkawik, New York, NY, June 23 - July 23, 2023
Prism presents six figures rendered in dusty grays and nuanced with rainbow washes in the painterly tradition of the old masters. The figures are private users, adolescents on the other side of social media profiles whose meticulous curation renders their visages synthetic. The figures pose, aware of the existence of a viewer to a limited extent. Guided by the algorithm, the artist finds the figures, depicts them in great detail, then obscures them in prismatic color. Hernandez repeats this process a number of times, removing and creating distance from delicately formed figures that echo a fading memory and a wondering future at the mercy of today’s innocence.
Hernandez’s figures are in the midst of change. It is unclear whether they are of passing or future relevance, if the image is developing or fading.
With each wash of color, each redrawing of a button, a collarbone, lace, Hernandez forces us to consider the sacredness of paint, of youth, and to question the difference between exposing something and bringing it to light.
—Toniann Fernandez
Hernandez’s figures are in the midst of change. It is unclear whether they are of passing or future relevance, if the image is developing or fading.
With each wash of color, each redrawing of a button, a collarbone, lace, Hernandez forces us to consider the sacredness of paint, of youth, and to question the difference between exposing something and bringing it to light.
—Toniann Fernandez
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