Amaya Hernández

“In my artistic research, I study architecture as a trace of the memory and identity of cities. Through their styles, buildings define an era and their transformations or collapses speak of paradigm shifts in societies”.

Memory of Deindustrialisation explores the process of deindustrialisation that has taken place in the centre of Madrid, a widespread phenomenon since the second half of the 20th century in most major Western cities, whose main characteristic has been the demise of industrial activity and its gradual and centrifugal abandonment of the city centre. The project highlights, from a poetic perspective, small structural changes in the buildings of Matadero Madrid, the city’s former slaughterhouse, that signify the passage of time and its transformation. Using video installation and light as protagonists, the artist creates dialogues between what was and what is.

Biography
Amaya Hernández (Madrid, 1980) is a Doctor of Fine Arts, visual artist and teacher. Her research explores the memory of spaces and architectures that have disappeared, been transformed or given a new meaning. She has received various prizes and awards for her work, including the Caja Madrid Generations Award, the Bancaja Digital Art Award, the INJUVE Award and the Grants for Creation in the Visual Arts from the Community and the City Council of Madrid, among others. Her work has been exhibited in institutions and museums such as La Casa Encendida, El Círculo de Bellas Artes, Condeduque Centre for Contemporary Culture, IVAM (Valencia) and MAC (A Coruña).