Born in land sacred to the Muisca, at eleven thousand feet in the Guacheneque Páramo, the Bogotá River descends into the savanna as a small mountain stream, clear and immaculate. Flowing through wetlands once teeming with birdlife—ecological formations that filter and purify like a natural sponge— the river merges with a network of watercourses, all …
Sean Kelly is delighted to present RÍO, Ana González’s third exhibition with the gallery. Conceived as a metaphorical river, RÍO flows through cascades, forests, and tropical jungles. Employing textiles, painting, porcelain, and video the exhibition conjures memory, emotion, and material transformation. Informed by indigenous cultures and their relationship to the land, water, and forests …
Sean Kelly is delighted to present VERDES, Ana González’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Through her artistic practice González captures the duality of the natural world – its fragile state due to humanity’s extraction of natural resources and the political and spiritual power inherent to it. Drawing upon the landscapes of her native Colombia, …
Sean Kelly, New York is delighted to present Bruma, Ana González’s first solo exhibition in New York. The paintings and tapestries on view in Bruma depict the flora and fauna of González’s native Colombia and represent the ecosystems under threat from industries seeking to exploit them for their natural resources. González’s practice opposes the disappearance …
When nature is perceived as a network, its vulnerability becomes apparent. Everything holds together. If one thread is pulled, the entire tapestry can unravel […]. Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World See more Por: Ana Cárdenas Back
I believe that the God of this lively, terrestrial artist is closer to the pantheistic God of the kindly heterodox Jew Baruch Spinoza than to the Olympian God of the Church fathers. González looks at our natural surroundings—animal, vegetable, mineral—and paints and models them with extraordinary gentleness, yet in the manner of Spinoza as well, …
This book celebrates mythic origins. Each work of art serves as a prayer. Together they awaken the mystic threads of memory that reach back to the dawn of creation, and a cosmic moment when women and water as a single generative force brought life and fertility to a barren and chaotic world. Out of myth …
This series of documentary photographs titled “Bellas Durmientes” (Sleeping Beauties) was shot in 2013 in a hastily abandoned house in Córdoba, Colombia, an architectural space seized by untamed plant life as if by a guest who gradually, stealthily takes over. See more The landscape enters into this period of work in dynamic contrast to the …
Trees, flowers, bees, grass, rivers, mountains, clouds, stones… Nature is a great metaphor. A landscape is a projection of human feelings, a cultural construction that can be decoded as a textual system in which its objects, such as plants, animals, insects, minerals and water, are interpreted as symbols or allegories. See more Por: Mariangela Méndez …
In this project, the artist works closely with displaced communities from Chocó who have been living in Bogotá for several years. It compiles many stories from people who have experienced the violence of drug trafficking and have now become invisible in the city, like ghosts. Liberi proposes an exploration by the viewer where he or …