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Nelson Hernandez. Contemporary chilean painter.

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Fever dream (basement)

Oil on wooden panel
14 × 11 in
2025

author Nelson Hernández
exhibited in
CAN Art Fair. CAN Art, Madrid, 2026
Fever Dreams. Isabel Croxatto Gallery, Chile, 2026
Terraforming: Mapping Space Through Pigment. Museum Street, London, 2025
serie
Fever Dreams
technique
Oil
keywords
black and white
Fever dream (basement), Nelson Hernandez

Description

This work is part of the Fever Dream series, a group of paintings that adopts the visual language of photography to construct scenes in which space, scale, and the origin of images collide, producing situations that are improbable yet internally coherent.

In this piece, a brutalist London architecture becomes the setting for an impossible encounter: the disproportionately monumental head of Yoda gazes upon the decapitated body of a Parthenon sculpture taken from the British Museum’s collection. The scene activates a dialogue between classical ruin, popular culture, and fiction, suggesting a distorted reading of historical legacy through the lens of contemporary imagination.

Gallery

Fever dream (basement) by Nelson Hernández, oil on wooden panel, 35.4 x 27.8 cm. A brutalist concrete interior frames an encounter between a monumental Yoda head and a headless Parthenon sculpture
Fever dream (basement) hung on a white wall, showing the scale of the small oil painting on wooden panel
Fever dream (basement) by Nelson Hernández, oil on wooden panel. Dark brutalist basement scene with a giant Yoda head overlooking a decapitated classical sculpture

© 2018–2026 · contenido & desarrollo por Nelson Hernández

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