Artist: Jesús Hernández Verano
Dates: October 30th 2025 to January 07th 2026

The work of Jesús Hernández Verano situates us in a territory of deep resonance, where sculpture, installation and drawing intertwine as material languages of the invisible. Horadar la sombra does not offer a response, but an opening: a fissure through which to glimpse what remains hidden.

This exhibition inhabits a liminal space: shared yet unpredictable, porous yet sustained. A place where artistic practice is not presented as object, but as a way of being in the world — a sensitive disposition towards what wounds, what is absent, what transforms.

The works gathered here compose a subtle map of connections between body, memory, desire and absence. Through heterogeneous materials — hard, fragile, porous — the artist summons a physicality that does not impose itself, but rather resists. Each piece is a tactile fragment of an elusive emotion, an echo of what is not spoken yet deeply felt. There is, within them, a symptom, a minimal disturbance that invites excavation — as if probing the inert thickness of a mental substance, a faint murmur that unsettles the surface.

Skin, void, hollow and incision are not mere poetic metaphors, but conceptual and operative strategies — ways of inscribing time and language onto matter. What is pierced is not only the shadow as image, but the very experience of the unspeakable, that which, in refusing to be named, takes shape.

In Pierce through the shadow, the viewer is invited to linger. Not in search of a linear narrative, but to inhabit a rhythm, an atmosphere, a distinct mode of attention. As in Barthes’ “texts of pleasure”, what matters is not what is told, but how it is suggested — what emerges from the margin. A call to read through sensation, through touch, through silence.

JESÚS HERNÁNDEZ VERANO (Tenerife, 1970)

After initial studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid, he graduated from the Faculty of Cuenca. His work is rooted in sculpture, drawing and installation, where various personal interests converge as a programme articulated through different media. This ongoing search — which is also a form of resistance — understands artistic practice as relational. From this position, he models, tests and discovers ways of bearing witness. There is always a symptom, something to be deciphered that emerges as a disturbance — an excavation into the inert depth of a mental substance. The kind of emotivity his works emit reveals intimate links between language, desire, the body and absence.

From his first solo exhibition at the Sala de Arte Joven of the Community of Madrid to his most recent show in April at TEA, Espacio de las Artes in Tenerife, Jesús Hernández Verano has spent over twenty-five years working and exhibiting in venues such as Valencia with Luis Adelantado, Berlin, Paris — through the Circuitos programme of the Community of Madrid — and New York, in collaboration with Miriam Gallery.

He has also participated in international art fairs including ARCO Madrid, Artissima in Turin, and FIAC. His works do not merely invite contemplation; they act as corporeal gestures, opening spaces for introspection.

His work is part of public collections such as INJUVE, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Culture (Madrid), the Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife and the TEA Espacio de las Artes (Cabildo Insular de Tenerife), as well as the Antonio P. Martín Collection (Gran Canaria), alongside various international private collections