{ About the artist }
Jeice D Hernández C. Professional in art and photography. Candidate for the Doctorate in Creation and Artistic Research, Studies in Fine Arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, postgraduate studies in Photojournalism and also in Digital Image UAB. Postgraduate studies in art Actual Art: analysis and management,and Master studies in analysis of contemporary art from the University of Barcelona (UB). She has participated in differents seminars related to art and its different expression means. (Architecture, photography and painting).
Since 1997, She began to work on projects, most of them in mixed techniques, symbolic and sometimes expressionist, that have had a constant multidisciplinary interaction with Photography, Plastic Art and literature. Most of the time this work developing a research and creative scheme at the same time.
One of the central topic of her work is the city in relation to its inhabitants and the importance of the imaginative act as the connector of people and that which surrounds them. She has also participated in different researches and publications.
As some of the highlights, the itinerant exhibition "The Fairy Tales Legacy" visited 21 cities, in two countries (Spain and the Netherlands) and was seen by more than five thousand people (5,000). 2001-2002 Christie's House auction a charity sculpture, sponsored by the arborizarte program. Also in that year her photographic work was selected for the children's book of Colombia sponsored by the University of Salamanca-Spain.
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Statement
Art must enclose a meaning, not just to convey a proper feeling if not to bring something to people who have contact with it, carrying a message, something that transcends, art can be purely contemplative and that does not have less value, however since my first artwork I saw art as the essential element and the perfect means to move something in people, for me, the artwork is not the end, on the contrary it is the beginning, the trigger for anything else. I do not think you have to be inspired to create because creation is inspiration itself, art must inspire those who make it and who observes.
Throughout time, there is something that has always been present in our lives. Tales, stories and legends have, at some point crossed our paths, reviving our imagination as well as becoming part of popular culture, mostly due to their symbolism and meanings.
This interest in the relationship of these stories and the bond between people and literature, in the today world, is what has led me to develop research for more than 20 years on this issue, which has resulting in several works mainly based on the union of text, image and meaning.
(I consider most of my paintings symbolics and/or expressionist mixed media)As in these particular Stories, I base my work in hidden meanings, using layer , between shades, textures, colours and fragments from the texts. These generate unique images that aim at showing recognisable elements that produce short moments of connection and the possibility of creating new meanings out of those elements.
“There is something magical about fairy tales. Something ancestral and mystic, something that makes us feel suspicious at the entrance to a forest. Or something that urges us to seek the protection of a fireplace and a roof as night falls. There is something about fairy tales that provoke their charm to stay with us ever after, that guides us over the years in search for prince charming and remind us how to defeat evil witches that haunt us around life’s ins and outs. That “something” is magic, and we see it emerging every time in Jeice Hernandez’s brush strokes. A young artist with an outstanding technique indorsed by her great classic training”.
Ana Trigo, Art Critic and Consultant. Madrid 2012