Abraham González Pacheco

Campeche presents Paderón, Abraham González Pacheco's first solo exhibition at the gallery.

For this exhibition the artist worked on a series of pieces based on the juxtaposition of found materials such as concrete and metal structures, which he collects during his walks on paths near his house or industrial waste dumps in Tepoztlán, Morelos, where the artist currently resides.

The observation of his environment and the experimentation of conventional pictorial processes has led him to subvert them, generating a work that questions conventional canons and that encourages new conversations within the framework of current painting. The artist proposes a series of works that are built through the interference of chance and the natural process of things, where fragments and cracks are a quality in the pieces, gestures of that which cannot be controlled, such as free flow. of life or the universe.

Paderón is a gesture, a screenshot, a fragment of a mural of a possible or dystopian future, which is nourished by a series of anecdotes and questions, among them, the origins of his community and his family, the veracity of history official imposed by the State. Since, for example, there are no historical records of his hometown ¹. Abraham addresses this absence or social bias, extends it and uses it as an immersive tool to investigate his own identity through works that wear out instantly, that mutate over time. Living works that make their existence visible by fragmenting, that live in a second skin that is dismantled, remains of murals that can be a sculpture, or a window to what cannot be seen.

¹As mentioned by Itzel Vargas in her essay Chronicles of an Exhibition Project: Current Art and Native Peoples: https://muac.unam.mx/constelaciones/assets/docs/ensayo-itzelvargas.pdf

— Campeche