Berenice Hernandez was born in Mexico City and lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts, Ceramics and Glass from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Hernandez’s practice revolves around life and death, the search for meaning, and ways of coping with the fear of dying, non-existence, and the journey toward the void. Her work also seeks comfort through animals and nature, fairy tales, and imagination. Rooted in an interest in architecture, memory, space, and emotion, she works with clay, paper, and other materials to create pieces with a fragile and ephemeral character. Her works reflect on our relationship to unstable spaces—spaces held in suspension or at the mercy of overwhelming catastrophe—and how such environments can protect, contain, and shape us both physically and emotionally. Sometimes these spaces are imposed upon us; at other times they function as shelters or homes, and sometimes they collapse into ruins. What they share is that they are formed in relation to the individual, just as the individual is formed in relation to them. Hernandez approaches her practice like a playful architect, constructing forms from hundreds of thin layers of clay. She imagines these structures as shelters, dwellings, and stations—spaces of passage, refuge, and transformation.