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 …
A collaborative audiovisual work with composer Miguel Carrillo Samper, “Mutatio” is the central axis for a series of works by the same name. In Latin, mutatio means change, transformation, mutation, and it refers to the transition from chaos to seed to life, the nearly biological mutation that begins with chaos or chance to open up …
In this series, Ana González evokes the stories told by a nine-year-old girl, the daughter of a family displaced by violence in Juradó, Colombia. The work highlights the tension between the innocence of childhood and awakening to a reality altered by the ravages of war and forced disappearances. See More alicia-ana-gonzalez-1 alicia-ana-gonzalez-2 alicia-ana-gonzalez-5 alicia-ana-gonzalez-6 alicia-ana-gonzalez-7 …
The project “Bordados y Desbordados” (Embroidered and Overboard) is part of a series of works done on forcibly displaced women who have immigrated to the city. The idea is to embroider fine fabrics, cloths and silks from “exclusive” designers with popular, working-class motifs that are part of the collective memory of embroidery. See more The …
On the other hand, I eagerly took advantage of that privilege of childhood which allows beauty, luxury, and happiness to be things that can be eaten: in the rue Vavin I would stand transfixed before the windows of confectioners’ shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscopic …
Ana González belongs to a generation of enterprising artists who cultivate their trade within the narrow thresholds of aesthetics. Her career, nourished by a very important professional experience, is poised between architecture, photography, publishing and painting. See more Pelota de letras pelota-de-letras-ana-gonzalez-1 pelota-de-letras-ana-gonzalez-2 pelota-de-letras-ana-gonzalez-3 pelota-de-letras-ana-gonzalez-5 pelota-de-letras-ana-gonzalez-7 Back