“Indeed, the powers of photography have disrupted our understanding of reality, making it less and less feasible to reflect on our existence, following the distinction between images and things, between copies and originals.” Susan Sontag

Referencia Cruzada is the title of a project that integrates the work of Enrique Hernández and Arturo Soto, where different interpretations converge around the questioning of the production of images.
The work of Arturo Soto contemplates the saturation of meanings that characterize the digital era. This way, Soto problematizes the condition of photography as a producer of the real. Taking the city as a starting point, Soto manifests his desire to appreciate its different elements, while alluding to the sensitizing potential of art.
Apart, Enrique Hernández traces the idea of “aura” raised by Walter Benjamin. Its artistic process begins with photographic images or videos that he prints digitally to finally transfer them to oil painting. His work shows the deterioration of the original image as a result of technical processing, allowing, through the pictorial act, its revaluation.
Both artists agree on the use of the urban landscape as a container of a social and political dimension and they propose an analysis of the different ways in which the subjectivity of images shapes our perception of reality.