Mexico City — Est. studio practice
Elías
Hanono
Time as matter.
Gesture as memory.
01 — Statement
His work is a sustained investigation into time, understood not as an abstraction but as an accumulable, visible, and transformable material.
The practice is governed by a single rule — one line per day — a discipline of repetition that turns the studio into a calendar and the surface into a body of duration. Each gesture is a small unit of attention; accumulated, they become a register of experience, memory and time itself.
The pieces inhabit a territory between painting and sculpture. They grow, fold, expand and collapse. Silicone, oil, glass, canvas and metal become sediments of an ongoing process — surfaces in tension between accumulation and transformation.
“The work does not represent landscapes — it produces them as existential topographies, where the organic and the artificial cohabit.”
02 — Selected works
Bodies
in process.
Six works spanning 2017–2024. Click any piece to view full caption and detail.
03 — Process
One line
per day.
Repetition becomes a form of record. Each line is a temporal unit; each gesture sediments experience, memory and duration. The work does not represent landscapes — it produces them as existential topographies, where the organic and the artificial cohabit.
01 — Accumulation
Silicone laid stroke by stroke until the surface holds its own time.
02 — Folding
Material yields to gravity, then resists — collapse becomes drawing.
03 — Topography
What emerges is neither painting nor sculpture, but a sediment of days.
04 — About
A Mexican
practice.
Elías Hanono is a Mexican artist based in Mexico City, whose practice is distinguished by a sustained experimentation with non-conventional materials. His early training in architecture laid the foundation for his initial creative explorations with polyurethane foam, later evolving toward acrylic painting and ultimately toward a distinctive combination of silicone and oil.
- Based in
- Mexico City
- Background
- Architecture
- Materials
- Silicone, oil, glass, canvas, metal
- Practice
- Painting / sculpture
05 — Contact
For inquiries,
exhibitions &
acquisitions.
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