NADA Miami 2023

Hector’s original and poetic practice produces paintings that bind the viewer in sustained psychological suspense, a mesmeric state akin to the descriptions of an encounter with the Lacanian void. Hector’s portraits of friends, acquaintances, and complete strangers are allegories of longing, intimacy, and grief in response to isolation and dissociation. Layering bleach and dye on canvas, Hector builds up and erases sections to create composite likenesses in a direct conversation with the materiality of the canvas.