Manuel A. Hernandez R. has developed a practice surrounding the understanding, dissection, and search for what is human. He explores the ways in which humanity manifests, registers, and leaves traces over time. His work primarily employs images as source material to approach both intimate and public spheres, interweaving the domestic and collective, as well as the intimate and popular.
He perceives images as artificial creations that permeate every facet of the human experience. This transient material, despite its static appearance, possesses plastic and malleable properties that emerge once its original qualities (context, color, medium, or format) are altered. Through these alterations, new meanings and interpretations sprout from existing materials, which have been appropriated and reinterpreted to comprehend and explore facets of the human experience.