The Indian Ribadeo Festival
The Indian Ribadeo Festival pays tribute to the returned emigrants of America and the Caribbean, the 'Indians', intertwining history and memory with the vitality of the present. In this edition, the City Council invited the artist Ricardo Miguel Hernández to intervene the urban space with its photocollages turned into gigantographies, transforming aged facades aged into canvases that dialogue with the past. His works, up to 5 meters, recreate portraits and scenes that talk with architecture, weaving a bridge between nostalgia and contemporaneity. Twenty ephemeral pieces that revive the streets, inviting to reflect on identity, trip and belonging.
Ricardo Miguel Hernández is a Cuban visual artist whose work - through photography, video art, collage and installation - investigates the elasticity of memory and official speeches. Disassemble hegemonic narratives to propose individual -centered critical fictions as an act of poetic resistance.
He has exhibited his works in various personal samples in Spain, Italy and Cuba. Among his collective samples, those made in Tampa Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Le Lieu Centre en Art Actuel in Quebec, Photo España 2023, 2020 and 2019 in Madrid, Fest Foto Brazil 2019 Fundacão Ibere Camargo in Porto Alegre, PAC Padiglione d Contemporary Art in Milan, DOX Centre For Contemporary Art in Prague.
You can see more of Ricardo’s work on his Instagram account @r.miguelon84
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