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Liz Hernández: Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow) October 11 ➽ March 01, 2026
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Liz Hernández: Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow) October 11 ➽ March 01, 2026

Liz Hernández: Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow)

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In this site-specific mural, Liz Hernández (b. 1993, Mexico City) draws from her lived experience to address the ongoing attacks on immigrant and undocumented populations across the United States. Through a patchwork of words and images, Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow) (2025) offers a narrative expressing Hernández’s complex feelings, which are both deeply personal and communally resonant: fear and uncertainty, resolve and survival, care and solidarity.
_Revelación (Revelation)_ , 2024, Acrylic on wood panel, 54 x 44 inches. Image courtesy the artist.

A multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and embroidery, Hernández’s process often begins with writing. The text featured in Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow) is at once poetic and conversational, offering an intimate glimpse into the narrator’s observations, reflections, and emotions. The prose is rendered alongside the artist’s singular lexicon of symbols and vignettes inspired by Mexican cultural traditions and crafts, legends and folktales, Catholic aesthetics, and her family memories. Iconography—such as the butterfly, widely associated with migration—is presented alongside metaphors of the artist’s own making. For example, cactus thorns adorn the body of the artwork’s recurring female figure, serving as symbols of protection and strength, while a silhouette seated at the dinner table alludes to the looming realities of loss.

Through forms of storytelling both tender and pointed, Hernández draws us in, revealing urgent truths and creating a space for recognition and contemplation. The work acknowledges the immeasurable state-sanctioned violence and hardship, while, as reflected in the title, also honoring the ways immigrant and undocumented communities continue to live, grow, and nourish one another amidst attempts to silence and to stifle.

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Liz Hernández (b. 1993, Mexico City, Mexico) creates art rooted in storytelling, using painting, sculpture, and textiles to blur the boundary between the real and the imagined. Writing anchors her practice; each series begins with a short story that guides the creation of handcrafted objects and images. Her work engages both personal and collective narratives, often centered on memory, womanhood, and transformation. Driven by material experimentation, she studies ancestral techniques such as embroidery and repujado, reinterpreting these Mexican craft traditions to shape a visual language of her own. She has exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico City. Her work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, and KADIST.

Liz Hernández: Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow) is co-organized by Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, and Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle, Curatorial Associate. Mural painted by Jessica Cowley of Analog Signs and COCO NELLA.

ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.

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