David Castillo presents a solo exhibition by Gonzalo Hernández: Félix, Richard and Me, woven works that reflect gestures of labor, presence, and endurance across generations of artists. Hernández places himself in dialogue with Félix González-Torres and Richard Serra, reframing their emblematic acts of giving and grasping as woven images.

A large jacquard-woven textile depicts Félix González-Torres in a quiet moment before an exhibition opening. He bends toward the floor, arranging one of his candy works with characteristic care and generosity. This photographic still, translated into a monumental textile, insists on Félix’s presence as much as on the gesture itself—an act of preparation, repetition, and generosity, made permanent through the materiality of the woven surface.

Across from it, three smaller jacquard-woven self-portraits, combine Hernández’s likeness with stills from Richard Serra’s Hand Catching Lead (1968). In Serra’s film, a hand repeatedly attempts to grasp falling sheets of lead, evoking endurance, gravity, and futility. Hernández collages his own image into these moments, weaving Serra’s hand at the bottom of each composition as if reaching toward or from his portrait. Together, the five works enact a choreography of repetition and persistence, blurring the boundary between homage and self-inscription.

In weaving these images, Hernández not only preserves them but also reactivates their questions in the present: What does it mean to grasp, to hold, to give? How do gestures of labor and care continue to shape the role of the artist today? Félix, Richard and Me stages a dialogue between three figures, Félix, Richard, and Gonzalo, whose gestures, though different, converge in their insistence on endurance and presence.

Gonzalo Hernández was born in Lima, Peru (1991) and lives and works in Miami, FL. He received his MFA in Fibers and MA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; ICPNA, Lima, among others. He has participated in international exhibitions such as the XVI Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador). His work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Cultured Magazine, Artpapers, and Artnet. Hernández’s work is in public collections including ICPNA (Lima), and the Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah), among others.

• Felix Gonzalez Torres images are Courtesy of the Félix González-Torres Family Archives.

Gonzalo Hernández