Nelson Hernández Chilean, b. 1984
Tunnel, 2026
Oil on wood
36 x 28 x 2 cm
Series: Fever Dreams
Signed & Dated on the back
Further images
The composition draws the viewer into a corridor of uncertain perspective, a tunnel where spatial depth feels both compressed and unstable. At its far end, a monumental sculptural head blocks...
The composition draws the viewer into a corridor of uncertain perspective, a tunnel where spatial depth feels both compressed and unstable. At its far end, a monumental sculptural head blocks the passage; in the foreground, a plastic figure of Donkey from *Shrek* quietly observes the scene. Between them stretches not only physical distance, but a disjunction of scale: the monumental remains remote while the miniature lies within reach.
The tunnel evokes both the logic of a dream and the hidden spaces of a museum storeroom—a site of transit where images linger, detached from their original contexts. Along this passage, the colossal sculpture and the mass-produced toy become materially and visually equivalent, occupying the same continuum. Cultural memory emerges as fragmented, disordered, and strangely silent, where distinctions of scale, value, and historical significance begin to lose their authority.
The tunnel evokes both the logic of a dream and the hidden spaces of a museum storeroom—a site of transit where images linger, detached from their original contexts. Along this passage, the colossal sculpture and the mass-produced toy become materially and visually equivalent, occupying the same continuum. Cultural memory emerges as fragmented, disordered, and strangely silent, where distinctions of scale, value, and historical significance begin to lose their authority.