RESIDENCY

INMA HERRERA

May - June  2026

Inma Herrera born in Madrid in 1986 and rooted in Andalusian heritage, is a visual artist, printmaker, bodyworker, and educator living and working between Helsinki and Madrid. Through installations that bridge printmaking, sculpture, video, and performance, Herrera explores the alchemy and material transformation of image-making processes. Her practice engages with matter through the elemental forces of Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire, studying the concept of imprint where the human body becomes both vessel and catalyst.

Herrera’s work unfolds connections between materiality, embodiment, and transformation, often drawing from references to the history of printmaking and alchemy, geology, psychology and somatic practices.

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During her residency at NIROX, Inma continues the research initiated through her project Rain of Shame, first presented as part of Soil & Water. Her current work develops into an outdoor sculptural installation combining large copper poles and casts of hands. The copper surfaces carry the traces of her fingerprints, as though the sweat of her hands had slowly imprinted itself onto the metal.

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The project explores the relationship between the body and elemental processes, particularly the negotiation between water and earth as forces of regulation, release, and transformation. She draws parallels between rainfall within ecosystems and perspiration within the human body, examining hyperhidrosis as both a physiological condition and a metaphor for emotional exposure. Through touch, pressure, oxidation, and bodily residue, the work investigates how surfaces retain memory and how the body leaves involuntary evidence of its presence.

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At NIROX, this research expands into the landscape itself, where copper, gesture, and cast forms become part of an ongoing dialogue between material, environment, and the vulnerable traces of human contact.