Alejandra Hernández born in Bogotá, Colombia 1989, completed her bachelor in visual arts at Javeriana University, Bogotá in 2011, before moving to Belgium and starting a master in KASK School of Arts. She has exhibited in various art spaces in Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Brussels, among others. Painting and drawing have been her principal mediums influenced by the experiences of daily life, music, art history, comics, cinema and mythology. The result is often a combination of images and symbols that play between reality and fantasy, portrayed in moments where ambiguity is always present. In 2015 she began a program as a candidate laureate in HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium.
The countless and saturated visual inputs we face daily is something we have to deal with and confront through image making. They come in many forms, such as a found photograph, a kid walking by, faces in the train, costumes, films, history, mythology and of course, the internet, where almost every information is contained. Alejandra Hernández interest is to translate this knowledge, which for her naturally ends in a drawing or a painting. These mediums enable a freedom to construct and de-construct, a resistance to time and the need of making a narrative.
