Imaginary Destinations

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Imaginary Destinations is a series dedicated to the idea of visiting places that exist only in the imagination, and to the possibility of inhabiting an imaginary world as a form of freedom and desire. Within this series, Pool Olaista unfolds as a collection of swimming pools conceived as destinations without geography—spaces suspended between memory, longing, and projection.

Rather than documenting real sites, these works propose places to be mentally visited and emotionally inhabited. They invite the viewer to travel without moving, to experience leisure, beauty, and stillness beyond the limits of the physical world. In Pool Olaista, the swimming pool becomes an archetype of escape and contemplation: a site where time slows down and imagination takes over.

Imaginary Destinations does not seek to replace reality, but to expand it—offering spaces that can be entered through looking, desiring, and dreaming.

📆 June 1970

Diango Hernández Torres

Born in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, son of Caridad del Cobre Torres and Jesús Hernández. From an early age, Hernández’s paternal family relocated to the United States, while his maternal family remained in Cuba. He often refers to his childhood as having unfolded between two different worlds—a formative duality that continues to inform his thinking and artistic practice.

📆 1989 - 1994

Attended the Instituto Superior de Diseño (ISDI), Havana, Cuba.

Diango Hernández received a degree in Industrial Design, specializing in industrial machinery. During his studies at the Instituto Superior de Diseño (ISDI), he maintained a broad interest across all disciplines, with particular attention to Interior Design and visual communication.

📆 1994 - 2003

Ordo Amoris Cabinet

Hernández co-founded Ordo Amoris Cabinet (OAC) together with Ernesto Oroza. The collective was later joined by Francis Acea, Juan Bernal, and Manuel Piña. After 1996, the group was restructured and continued exclusively under Hernández and Acea until its dissolution in 2003. OAC rapidly gained international attention, enabling Hernández to travel extensively and exhibit in major art institutions worldwide. He has often described this collaborative period as a formative “school,” fundamental to his artistic education.

📆 2003 - 2026

Living in Italy, Spain and Germany

Hernández relocated to Europe in 2003, settling first in Trento, Italy. He subsequently moved to Seville, Spain, in 2004, and in 2005 established himself in Düsseldorf, Germany. These years proved fundamental to his artistic development: for the first time working independently, without the framework of a collective, he began traveling extensively and confronting a new set of experiences and challenges previously unknown to him. In 2005—only two years after his arrival in Europe—he was invited to participate in the La Biennale di Venezia, an event that marked a decisive turning point in his life and career.

📆 2026

Milan

Hernández currently works between Düsseldorf and Milan and travels frequently to Havana, where his mother resides. In 2003, while in Trento, he met Federico Luger, then a very young artist who had recently arrived in Italy from Venezuela. Over the years, Hernández maintained close contact with Luger, and this friendship gradually evolved into a highly productive collaboration after Luger opened a gallery in Milan. Hernández currently maintains his collaboration with Luger—today operating under the name Wizard Gallery—as an alternative model for the relationship between artists and galleries: one grounded more in trust and friendship than in conventional business structures.