Art Mediums: embroidery sculpture, found metal objects, found papers, acrylic medium, acrylic gel, and wood

www.paganinihernan.com

The gestures inside my work reveal three simple truths: nothing is perfect, nothing is finished, and nothing lasts. I explore the relationship between places, their stories, and the construction of our own subjectivities on the idea of inheritance and memory. In the sculptures, installations, and collages that I produce, the fragments are juxtaposed, staggered, scraped, enraged, approached, denied, affirmed, constructed, and reconstructed into new interpretations.

I consider the artistic practice as an extension of the body and the soul, connecting directly with the environment and everything that surrounds it, entering into a new principle of harmony. I try to bring to light the value of the incomplete as an aesthetic possibility of beauty as a timeless state that we can not encompass if not through our own imperfection. My art is the most magical tool of self-knowledge and the main instrument I use to read the universe surrounding me.

“I feel like everything in life has its own inner time. The human, as project, needs to evolve to something else regarding survival. In these new conditions that have opened for humanity, I realize more that networks of people could build the future that we want to live in. We need to embrace the chaos and uncertainty and release control. The events that are manifesting today in the world offer a great possibility to grow, there is much more to learn from the challenges than the comforts. It requires us to be flexible, take off our (metaphoric) masks, and live in an honest and awake mode. Things don’t change, they naturally evolve.”

“I have been fortunate to develop my passion into a profession. I didn’t follow a recipe. The way we build our path is through the work itself. I’m still making out of a desire for expressing my inner world and sharing my humble perspective, from the center of my heart to the times that I’m living. Gratefully, I don’t understand anything, and even nowadays I still have more questions than answers. There is no absolute truth, only fragments of a big uncertainty void.”

“I try to move into a non-place between nature and culture, awakening primitive behavior, and developing new resources to build a type of wild knowledge. Through artisan practice, it is possible to make tools that allow the modeling of wisdom. I propose the possibility to meet myself in front of the mirror using another culture as a bridge. To investigate diverse manifestations in the construction of my reality, working in an intuitive way with the materials, people, and resources of each destination.”

“I explore the relationship between places, their stories, and the construction of our subjectivities on the idea of inheritance and memory. Working through the discards of society as traces of unconscious gestures, which simultaneously carry a local and a foreign history, individual and collective. Investigating these vertices, juxtaposing the same actions on different social structures, I transmute the concept of cultural differences into an aesthetic creative sense.”