‘The idea of the goldfish falling connects to my family and my memories, but also to the idea of unexpected abundance. A rain of fish may be a fantastical event, but we can move fish from one place to another to feed people. Memories are like magical realism—they combine the factual with the imagination to make something surreal.’

—Angel Otero

Angel Otero is known for his signature approach to visual storytelling, synthesizing magical realism and abstraction, the observed and the imagined, and the past and the present. Beginning 1 June, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong presents ‘The Sea Remembers,’ Otero’s first major solo exhibition in Asia since he joined the gallery in 2022. Through a labor-intensive process of laying down, peeling and collaging oil paint, Otero’s works are rooted in abstract image making and engage with the idea of memory through addressing art history, as well as his own lived experience.

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