saul hernández vargas
bio + contact
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inabarcable y afilada
inabarcable y afiladaashes remain from
fireflies
and what was the desert like?
as it is in heaven
reflexiones sobre el cielo
three leagues from
alien cats
afilada radio
third lunar limb
piedra maternal primera
they come at night
cotton series
sol solaris
the boundaries of the earth
ellas mismas a punto de
otros ///
marcusse’s specter
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cera perdida
cera perdida
temblor de tierra
no hay lengua humana que
palabras perdidas
xipe totec que llora
xipe totec pirata
nueve viento
macetas juárez
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otros proyectos
textos (selection in Spanish)
el lugar del agua
edicionespatito.org
sur+ ediciones
revista yagular
hechoenoaxaca.org
dossier(2003-2013)
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litografía
impresor / instructor
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textos sobre
Saúl Hernández-Vargas is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work invokes the specters haunting the cracks and fissures of the Nation-State’s narratives. Recently, he has exhibited and performed in Houston Climate Justice Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, the Blaffer Art Museum (Houston) and the Lawndale Art Center (Houston). He was an artist in residence at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands (Arizona State University), and the Dust Program (Marfa). His work has been discussed in The Tyranny of Common Sense by Irmgard Emmelhainz (Sunny Press, 2021). In 2020, he developed Afilada Radio and co-curated No hay lengua humana que—a series of radio interventions for independent radio projects in Mexico. His first book, Te preparé humo, was published in 2019 (UNAM, Mexico). He co-founded the publishing project Sur+. Hernández-Vargas holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego and an Interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Houston.Currently he is a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston.
[Photos: Madison Lloyd]