Alejandra Hermida

Peeling walls become a physical record of time and human presence. As spaces are inhabited, repainted, and repurposed, layers of paint accumulate and eventually reveal the lives and moments embedded within them. These surfaces hold evidence of people who passed through and transformed them.

This series includes replicas of existing peeling walls alongside compositions derived from my own personal walls. By layering materials and architectural histories of my own homes, they become a visual registry of my lived experience.

This body of work reflects on ideas of migration, belonging, and adaptation, how home is not fixed but built through time, and presence. While places hold the memory of those who inhabit them, we also carry fragments of those places with us as we move on.