Revolving around events such as a car crash or the death of a loved one, Erick Alejandro Hernández's paintings are orchestrations of memories that have been fractured or reimagined in processes surrounding lived trauma. Various idiosyncratic symbols, including severed body parts, paper boats, pointing hands, smoke, and a resting lion recur throughout the works. This growing lexicon of motifs highlights the preeminence of psychic reality in the paintings, echoing Hernández's desire to give shape to that which is ineffable. The resulting works are investigative allegories exploring individual and shared experiences like grief, assimilation, and exile.