22 August - 30 September 2026
Opening: Saturday 22 August, from 17.00 to 20.00.
Location: tender prospects, Travessa Paz 17a, 1200-759, Lisboa, PT
No Man’s Art Gallery and tender prospects present Nocturnas, the first solo exhibition by Alan Hernández (1992, Mexico) in Lisbon, Portugal.
Through textiles, embroidery and crafted materials, Hernández creates hybrid beings that carry traces of intimacy and metamorphosis. Nocturnal life invites another way of seeing: one guided less by certainty and more by instinct, where identities remain fluid and beauty reveals itself slowly.
Known for a self-referential practice that combines a subtle sense of humour with a distinct political charge, Hernández works with intricate textile and beadwork techniques rooted in the craft traditions of his native region. Informed by the textile knowledge passed down from his mother, who worked as a seamstress, he transforms these techniques into immersive installations and scenographic environments.
Through his artistic practice, Hernández rethinks his role as a (queer) male within society, exploring themes of the body, gender, race, sexuality and identity. His sculptural works evolve intuitively throughout the making process, resulting in forms that merge the organic and the phallic, drawing from both nature and the human body.
Hernández graduated in Plastic and Visual Arts from the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO) in 2020. That same year, he received the CURARTE Prize from SECULTA Oaxaca and was awarded the FONCA Young Creators Grant (2020–2021). He was an artist-in-residence at Fundación Casa Wabi in Oaxaca in 2025. His work has been exhibited across Mexico, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and Canada, and is currently on view at Contextile, the Contemporary Textile Art Biennale in Guimarães.