AGUSTIN HERNANDEZ

Shelf Life / Currently Untitled

Artist: Agustin Hernandez
GHOST Gallery, New York & Los Angeles

Curated and Creative Directed by Stephan Alexander

Agustin Hernandez’s first two solo exhibitions with GHOST — Shelf Life and Currently Untitled — established a shared curatorial and visual framework that positioned photography as a spatial and psychological experience.

Across both projects, exhibition design and creative direction focused on translating Hernandez’s constructed visual language into environments that emphasized mood, symbolism, and ritualized presence.

Shelf Life

Presented at GHOST Satellite on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Shelf Life introduced a photographic practice defined by a deliberate tension between opulence and impermanence.

The exhibition centered on the notion of the shrine as a contemporary structure — a site where personal, cultural, and material values converge. Hernandez’s compositions operate as memorials of modern life, assembling visual elements that reflect the instability between aspiration and disposability.

Rather than presenting the works as isolated images, the exhibition was installed as an immersive environment. Spatial decisions reinforced the ceremonial undertones of the work, encouraging viewers to engage with the photographs as constructed realities rather than passive representations.

In the days leading up to the opening, select works were revealed through a private digital map, extending the exhibition into the surrounding city and foregrounding the relationship between image and lived space.

Currently Untitled

Opening first in Los Angeles before returning to New York in a more intimate configuration, Currently Untitled evolved the strategies introduced in Shelf Life.

The exhibition shifted emphasis from the staging of environments toward the photographic works as self-contained objects. The presentation was more distilled, allowing the images to operate with increased autonomy while retaining the immersive sensibility established in the earlier project.

Exhibition Framework

Together, Shelf Life and Currently Untitled articulated a curatorial approach grounded in immersion, symbolism, and material translation.

Through exhibition design and creative direction, the photographic image was positioned not as a fixed endpoint, but as an entry point into a broader constructed atmosphere — one that privileges mood, ambiguity, and sustained engagement over narrative resolution.