Exercises (on vinyl gloves)

Fernando Hierro is a visual artist, cultural manager and student of the Bachelor in Arts and since 2016 he is a member of the Free Chair of Art, History and Society, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University Of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fernando was one of the selected artists through the Semillero 2017 call. He presented the installation Exercises (on vinyl gloves) during the November 2017 ´aceNITE, together with Santiago Ocampo’s project Traces, artists in residency Caleb Jamel Brown (USA) and Elinor Peiretti (Argentina) and the [Blank Space] closing group show.

EXERCISES (ON VINYL GLOVES) (by Fernando Hierro)

The possibility of building a work on the reflection of a practice in the becoming of traveling, is the axis of the present installation. Exercises groups and visualizes six years of production in trials, errors and intermittences characteristic of changing residence between Scandinavia, Central America and Buenos Aires. Through the synopsis as a resource, I try to link themes such as migration, notions of identity and the circulation of discursive constructions, which make visible tensions between local and global dynamics.

It is worth mentioning that the present proposal is part of my research and visual exploration platform entitled CORTES / CUTS, opportunely exhibited in two facilities in Sweden (2011) and in El Salvador (2014).
The exhibited work is part of a larger body of work that includes sketches, ephemeral drawings, photographic records, objects, texts and geometric interventions on the wall, which intersect the phenomenal, the epistemological and the topological. Articulated in brief textual reviews under the following headings: i) Search exercise, ii) Exercise on vinyl gloves, iii) Exercise on a snowball and iv) Arm and disarm exercises.