10/10/2026
“About having a dysregulated nervous system”, Nadia Zamora Hernandez, copper etching on paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2023. (picture 1 and 2)
“Apapachame”, Nadia Zamora Hernandez, oil on canvas, 66 x 48 inches, 2024. (picture 3, 4 and 5)
“My work considers care, ritual, and the body as sites of translation, memory, and resistance. I explore the ways our bodies navigate spaces as they become charged with tenderness and violence. Through this work, I bring into view the embodied traces of painful experiences alongside the softness and care that our bodies carry. Acts of survival, rage, and love become ways of reimagining protection and intimacy. I aim to depict the attention my body directs toward the things it touches, as well as its instinct to conceal what has been tainted. My practice is guided by an unspoken mutual understanding shared among those affected by gender-based violence: an understanding of the vitality of protection, courage, and care.”
View Nadia’s work until October 31 at the Latitude 53 gallery and read more about her work at latitude53.org.
Nadia Zamora Hernandez (she/her) was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 2009. She holds a BFA from the University of Alberta (2025). She is an emerging artist whose work is inspired by the human body and explores the nuances and complexities of lived experiences. Her art fosters personal healing. She is driven by love–and by rage. She finds it necessary to make space for radical resistance and encourages artists to clutch onto advocacy. She cherishes her roots, gently holds them, and braids them into her diasporic experience.
This exhibition was curated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez and made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and of the Winnipeg Arts Council, with funding from the City of Winnipeg.
