Ileana Hernández

Por mi cuerpa hidrófila aparecen escurridizos empapos casi cristales is a solo exhibition by Ileana Hernández, at Casino Local.

The show brings together pieces that emerge from recurring devices within the artist's performative practice: everyday objects that have accompanied actions, bodily mutations, and exercises in relating to the environment and to living and inert beings. More than isolated objects, they function as extensions of the body, sensitive membranes and "second skins" that retain traces of movement, contact, and transformation.

The exhibition proposes inhabiting the space as a large body in constant exchange, where each piece acts as a living surface that absorbs, filters, and transmits. Matter, presence, and space intertwine to build a liminal territory where the moist, the sensitive, and the changing reveal other forms of perception.

From a hydrophilic sensibility, the works invite us to observe that which becomes impregnated, shifts, loosens, and leaves a trace or not. The objects appear as hybrid presences that expand the notion of the body as porous membranes capable of absorbing, discharging, and creating bonds with everything that surrounds them.

—Casino Local