Description
Karla Herencia’s work addresses environmental degradation, inspired by Costa Rican coastal landscapes. She collects discarded plastic and industrial debris, inspiring paintings, sculptures and mixed-media installations that reflect on the complex relationship between human invention and nature.
Influenced by the shifting oceanic and tectonic dynamics of her environment, Herencia explores themes of the body, territory, and environmental crisis.
In her El silencio tiene formas, which translates to Silence Has Forms, Herencia presents paintings with a striking black background with white organic ocean forms, outlined in grey, some cracked, some fluid, some branching. For Herencia, the white space is the paper breathing. She describes this natural forms works on paper series as having emerged from a personal process of grief, but also from the discovery of a love that survives loss. The works thus address memory, space, void, and silence.
She says: “It is also my way of honoring those I have lost sight of: people and species who, paradoxically, are still present — even when they can no longer be seen. Like the crab, which has been quietly disappearing from the coastal environment I inhabit — a place in Costa Rica, one known and celebrated worldwide for its exuberant nature.”
This series is the beginning of a larger series Herencia continues to work on, exploring how absence and memory can teach us new ways of inhabiting the world.
Framing not included.
Shipping: This artwork will be rolled for shipment.
