Se vider, se disperser #8, 2025

Se vider, se disperser #8, 2025, Oil on wood, 30 × 25 × 3 cm

Rodrigo Hernández’s new series of paintings, inspired by Aesop’s fable The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts, extends his ongoing exploration of bats and builds on his 2024 exhibition at ChertLüdde Gallery, stars around this beautiful moon hide / back their luminous form.

Ultimately centered around identity and social exclusion, the series uses the bat as a metaphor for survival under conditions of abjection and isolation. Often cast as disloyal or indecisive in human narratives, bats here embody ambivalence—linked both to ominous symbolism and, in some traditions, to transformation and spiritual insight. Hernández also foregrounds their ecological role in pest control, pollination, and seed dispersal, reframing survival as a collective, interspecies concern. Shown to be approaching flowers, the bats of Rodrigo Hernández suggest a quiet yet vital interconnectedness among all creatures in a time of ecological crisis.