INNER WORLD
A Solo Art Exhibition by Gabriela Hermed
🗓️ Opening Reception: Friday, November 7th, 2025 — 6 PM
📍 MaMO Gallery (Next to Petshop Gallery)
2725 N 62nd St, Omaha, NE
🗓️ Closing Reception: Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 — 6–9 PM
Show Statement
The work of Gabriela Hermed unfolds in a liminal space—one that is not entirely one thing nor the other: between the movement of the image and the stillness of painting, between digital acceleration and the possibility of pause.
In a present marked by the logic of immediacy, Hermed returns to painting as an intimate and ritual gesture—a way of listening to her own body and inhabiting it fully. Her practice opens an essential question: Why does painting remain relevant today, in a world traversed by technologies that accelerate, display, and consume everything instantly?
In dialogue with a contemporary landscape dominated by algorithms, screens, and image overproduction, her work does not reject technology but instead positions itself from another place: a territory where painting can still open a space for silence, slowness, and contemplation.
Each work becomes a window into the unconscious—exercises in automatic drawing, resonances of action painting, arcane symbols that emerge from tarot cards (such as the figure of The Hermit), and mediumistic practices that place the artist as a channel between the visible and the invisible.
In this passage, error is not a flaw but fertile ground: sixty attempts that embrace imperfection as a field of possibility and condense into forty small-format paintings, emphasizing intimacy and spontaneity as sources of power.
In Hermed’s work, painting is not merely a medium—it is an active exercise that dialogues with the elements: water, flowers, frequencies, and liquid atmospheres that evoke floating, earth, and air. Across her surfaces emerge eyes, vines, and signs of clairvoyance that invite us to think of painting as a meditation in motion.
Conceived during the pandemic, this body of work was born amid chaos and stillness, opening itself as an exploration of inner worlds. Inner World proposes a journey inward—to what decomposes and what regenerates—to a territory where painting reveals itself as both a symbolic language and a radical act of freedom.
—Alina Sánchez (@alina_sanchez_lopez)
Artist Statement
Gabriela Hermed (Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A., 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist with a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts, specializing in Graphic Design, from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (2015–2019).
The transition between her two family homes (Guanajuato and Nebraska) has led her to explore themes such as human connection, vulnerability, solitude, presence, and everyday spaces, and how these influence personal stories. Her early work focuses on the relationship between the human being and everyday space, exploring this through various techniques, including illustration (both analog and digital), painting, photography, and installation.
From 2016 to 2019, she participated in several group exhibitions, including Gravedad y Ligereza: Tildes y Espíritus (Oct. 2019) at the Rosario Sánchez de Lozada Municipal Gallery; LABYRINTHUS: univiario migratorio del alma (Oct. 2019) as part of the XLVII International Cervantino Festival at the Centro Cultural Ramo de Aguas; and Vulnerabilidad (Nov. 2018), organized by Círculo Colectivo at the Rectoría Building of the UAQ.
During the 2020 lockdown, she participated virtually in the collective sound piece Voces conspicuas renacidas by contributing vocals and video editing, organized by the Cultural Extension of the Fonoteca de Tlaxcala.
Her interest in audiovisual language—particularly in music videos and animation—has led her to develop new projects related to music and documentary filmmaking. Both allow her to create a different kind of connection with her surroundings and with people, while also engaging more directly with communities that share her interests.
This gave rise to Vida y Arte (2021), a podcast dedicated to art, creative processes, and perspectives in collaboration with artists. Motivated by the desire to preserve a family tradition and transmit its essence, she began the production, direction, and design of the documentary Los Judas de Mi Pueblo (2022), which is currently in post-production.
Constant movement, connection-building, and creative collaboration networks drive her to continue working and discovering new themes. Her audiovisual projects for 2025 focus on femininity and the exploration of self-knowledge through the series Inner World.