Arturo Hernández Alcázar

Arturo Hernández Alcázar was born in 1978 in Mexico City, where he still lives and works.

The work of Hernández Alcázar is composed of the remnants produced by the collision of political, historical and geological processes, which he introduces into critical contexts with the intention of dislocating the structures of the modern project. Sculptures, objects, installations, sound works, images, books, videos, drawings, actions and site-specific interventions address the tense relationship between power, form and resistance through their traces, marks and residues.

The relationship with the political, the social, the materiality of power and the materiality of the human trace are inherent concerns in his practice.

Construction sites and abandoned places are central to Hernández Alcázar’s work, as he develops pieces using found materials and constructs a form of syntax around sculpture whose elemental particles are falling debris and dust that has not yet settled: actions that continue to unfold, infinite and impossible collections, noises induced in concrete, meticulously organised remnants and waste, and texts as actions. His approaches to sound emerge in this context, with no relation to music or technology, but instead to drift, found materials, voltage and labour, to the forces that shape the world, the resistances of materials and of time.

The nature of his work obliges it to destroy itself, atomise, cancel itself, dissolve or return to economic circulation. Copper, smoke, iron, archives, newspapers, coins, stones and fallen buildings form part of a practice in constant transformation.