Nadia Hernández Born 1987, Merida, Venezuela. Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Nadia Hernández’s practice reflects a process of bearing witness to the loss of home and the symbolic power of memory and memorialization. Informed by her experience as a Venezuelan woman living in Australia, and positioning herself both within and outside the Latin diaspora, Hernández makes art as a means to connect with a sense of place that exists beyond psychic and geographic boundaries. She negotiates complex narratives, weaving the personal and the political, to create a highly recognisable visual language expressed through colourful textiles, paper constructions, paintings, music, installations, sculptures, and murals. Her works weave together the complexities of memory, despair, hope and reconciliation, reminding us that these opposing sensations often co-exist.