Hermes Berrio

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work captures the significance from my daily life, relating it with a grand scope that emphasizes both the mundane and the extraordinary. With reality as the foundation to my practice, I create a vibrant narrative and a personal reflection on the world. Finding inspiration in these unusual and yet commonplace experiences, Iexplore the complexity of such simple moments and render them on a monumental scale. I re-imagine, re-arrange, and metamorphosize visions of a cultural and personal landscape, seeking new ways to interpret one’s truth visually.

BIO

Hermes Berrio (b. 1980, Colombia), currently living and working in Miami. He received his BFA from New York, University (2005) and has since grown his artistic career in Miami. In recent years, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions around the world for galleries and institutions in the U.S. and Colombia, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Australia, and Canada. He’s also completed a number of murals, with the most recent installations throughout the city of Miami. In 2018 he was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and in 2019 from the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation. He has been a Fountainhead Studio artist resident since May 2019 and is represented by Fabien Castanier Gallery in Miami. He continues to evolve his practice, investigating new processes and mediums, while challenging contemporary expectations with his prodigious compositions.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: www.hermesberrio.com

Instagram: @hermesberrio

Gallery links: www.berlinartscouts.de 

Stephanie Hadad

ARTIST STATEMENT

Stephanie’s work continues to evolve by exploring her stance within Jewish culture. Hadad’s works represent and touch upon the physical toll incurred by a woman that has taken on the role of a traditional domestic housewife. It's the duty of creating and keeping ancient traditions alive, not by force, but because of the desire to vitalize their customs for generations to come.

Hadad’s childhood was based around being constantly conditioned in preparation for her turn as the housewife. That intense rooted process causes the works she produces to appear in the sub-conscious, her dreams. Through her responsibilities as a daughter, she witnessed firsthand through her mother, the burden to persevere, but in the end, also revel a joy. With transformation of these perpetual traditions, Stephanie acknowledges and plays with the conscious ideas her position holds within this role and is continuously being redefined by her experiences. 

Through studies, research and exploration of her individuality and culture, Hadad has taken a political and yet poetic approach to voice her works through a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. Each piece corresponds with the other, creating a narrative for women, who especially now, are starting to get the recognition they deserve.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: http://www.stephanieeti.com

Instagram: @etishh