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
In the beginning, nothing existed; there was no Earth, no Sun, no Moon. Everything was darkness, everything was water. Water was the mother creator. And when Mother Se created the world, she saw the need for a person of flesh and bone, someone to watch over the land. This is why Mother Se created us, …
In this project, the artist worked with a group of six soldiers wounded in combat by anti-personnel mines and explosives. She held workshops for “memory and reconstruction” in the “Batallón de sanidad” (Health Battalion) and afterwards developed a work based on the images and experiences that the soldiers, now blinded by anti-personnel mines, found they …
The “Pass i flora” project is divided into several parts. The first, “Mutatio,” a collaborative work with the composer Miguel Carrillo Samper, is the central axis of the series because it addresses chaos, the seed and life, the nearly biological mutation that begins with chaos or chance to open up new definitions of reality. See …
Cuando se percibe la naturaleza como una red, su vulnerabilidad salta a la vista. Todo se sostiene junto. Si se tira de un hilo, puede deshacerse el tapiz entero […]. Andrea Wulf, La invención de la naturaleza: el nuevo mundo de Alexander von Humboldt Ver más Por: Ana Cárdenas Regresar
Creo que el Dios de esta artista terrenal y viva, más que el Dios olímpico de los padres de la Iglesia, se acerca al Dios panteísta del amable judío heterodoxo Baruch de Spinoza. González mira nuestro entorno natural, el vegetal, el mineral, el animado, y lo pinta y modela con extrema dulzura, pero al mismo …
Hijas del Agua celebra los orígenes míticos. Cada obra de arte constituye una plegaria. Juntas, despiertan los hilos místicos de la memoria que se remontan al amanecer de la creación, a un momento cósmico en que las mujeres y el agua, como una sola fuerza generadora, daban vida y fertilidad a un mundo caótico y …
Esta serie de fotografías documentales llamadas “Bellas durmientes” fueron tomadas en el año 2013 en una casa abruptamente abandonada en Córdoba, Colombia, donde la vegetación salvaje se ha apropiado del espacio arquitectónico, como un huésped más que se toma sigilosamente y de manera progresiva el lugar. Ver más El paisaje entra en ésta etapa de …