This exhibition continues Nadia Hernández’s exploration of memory and its relationship to personal, historical and shared experience. Drawing on her own stories, Venezuelan cultural archives, and the diasporic conditions that shape her sense of belonging, her works often take the form of textiles, paintings and multidisciplinary installations.
For this Sydney premiere, Hernández presents an evolving project centred on Venezuelan protest songs, musical traditions and the complexities of displacement and connection. Across an immersive textile collage, mural and soundscape, she reconstructs phrases from an archive of protest songs into fragmented poetry, revealing how resistance is encoded in music and remembrance.
The presentation expands an ongoing project that includes recent works En todo tiempo (at all times) 2024 and El segundo verso (the second verse) 2025. Reworked elements and new additions enliven familial, communal and cultural histories, connecting Venezuelan collaborators in different locations globally. The installation’s lyrical verses form a chorus of dissent and joyous communion – a call of hope for a more humane future.
This exhibition is part of the Art Gallery’s Contemporary Projects series, which highlights the work of artists from NSW and at times, wider Australia.
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