[Current State of my Art]
In my work, I combine analogue and digital techniques, contrasting visual and sound utopias but also the daily inflorescence with sound spaces. My works are often quite ethereal, sometimes almost invisible, but the pieces are there to evoke something that wants to be remembered. They are physically floating in the atmosphere, to capture the essence of their own time, and to be experienced: the life of an artwork also has a span. If I were a cyborg, I would have grown antennae and additional sensors to better sense what I cannot understand, because there are things that are completely out of our control. Engaged with vital processes, transformation and growth, I play with format and scale, deconstructing, fragmenting and re-layering. My work is site- and time-specific. It crystallizes mostly in fragile installations, sculptural works as immersive and fictional realities -opening the room for participation, interventions and performances live. It expands and compresses in abstract empirical paintings, collages, filmic works, conceptual art exceeding “medium”.
I juxtapose sound to visual, where beyond the aesthetics I can also explore an inner experience of musicality. I am interested in processes of change, related to the ethereal environment and social structures in the daily confrontation with technologies, as well as in the dialectics of private and public spheres, inner and outer worlds and their osmotic boundaries. Likewise, I tackle themes that embrace language, alternative ways of communication, life, nature-artifice, perception in their physical and virtual levels. Within my work, I attempt to emotionally provoke the audience while leaving an empty space for the imagination.
Currently, through the starting sketches of a new Serie Híbrida [hybrid series] I set in domestic scale sorts of Aparejos Sonoros [hybrid series] of sound arrangements using discrete steel structures, embroideries of fruit and potato nets, ink and piezos, as well as apparatuses mechanisms of the visual and musical industry currently in danger of extinction. Aparejos Sonoros are unifying new alliances of matter that matters into my artistic production. I wish to deeper explore the manifold sides of the work, testing the osmotic boundaries of sound-visual and text assemble that deals with [nature], [climate] and with the [otherness of the other] in versatile contexts, politically on debate, artistically inhabited on the artifacts, and also carried on the skin and the voice of the artist [mi voz] Within this U-turn I want to open Up my work to new refreshed possibilities for the visual, sonic and performative sets and convey meaningful, significant and worthy new encounters 1:1 *my mission through the art. To me, artistic resilience is a way to transform worlds.
JH
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(1975) Patagonian artist based in Vienna since 2006 grew up between the sea and the mountains. She is educated in art and architecture. Studied dance and music at INSA (today IUPA – Instituto Universitario Patagónico de las Artes) in General Roca, RN. Architecture at UBA Buenos Aires and art and architecture at STÄDELSCHULE, school of fine arts, Frankfurt am Main. Her work starts from a spatial sensibility that becomes temporal and site specific, with an increasing synthesis over the years, combining visual, sound and performative approaches.
Outstanding solo exhibitions: FUGA N22, Q21 showrooms, Museumsquartier 2022 and REM Bildraum 01 2017. Several participations at shows in Vienna and abroad since 2002 e.g. at das weisse haus, Künstlerhaus, Maison de l’Argentine, Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris; Centro Cultural Borges, Fundación Andreani, and CCK in Buenos Aires, Kunsthalle LAB Bratislava, Kajaani Art Museum Finland. 2013-2015 local artist of the studio and residency program studio das weisse haus. During the Pandemic 2020-2021 guest artist at WUK (Ausweichquartier). She also initiated/founded Slow Wave, a format for open artistic encounters, focused on climate in the broadest sense. Herrero received awards and arts fundings for works and projects, among others: 2015 Outstanding Artists Awards -Interdisciplinary of the Austrian Chancellery- award for the special achievements, Andreani Foundation Award for Visual Arts (3.Prize, Revelación) and in 2018 fundings from the city of Vienna (Visual Arts and New Media) for the realization of the work “on the filaments, there where the plateau rises.”
The artist is currently truly inspired by the beauty and spirit of the wild fauna. She follows the learnings of Puma Lontla online and the cameras of dolphindronedom in Atlantic North, recording dolphins and whales and the camera of Lorenzo in Atlantic South recording [Ballena Franca Austral] at the shores where she also enjoys swimming in open waters when visiting her mother land.
Juliana Herrero
*1975
ART PRAXIS I PRAXIS DER KUNST
2001-Present
1:1 spatial installations, sound installations, musical objects, architectures of atmospheres, sculptural works, transpositions as synesthesia in watercolor as experimental cyanotype, mixed media, interventions in situ and live, conceptual art
Juliana Herrero was born in 1975 in Choele Choel, Río Negro.
She was trained in Argentina and Germany, developing later her work across the latitudes.
She studied at INSA (now IUPA -Instituto Patagónico de las Artes) in G. Roca and Fadu UBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina and at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
Currently, the artist works between Buenos Aires and Vienna, where she has lived since 2006.
This is a virtual address for the artist, some of her virtual and natural environments extend here: