Javier González Pesce

Javier González Pesce is the guest of MAPS+S (Master of Arts in Public Spheres + Sound) for a presentation to be held on Friday February 28, 2025 at 4:30 pm at Movimax (Sierre, Route de l'Ancien Sierre 9).

«In my work I reflect on how bodies and matter move through space as they react to attractive or repulsive substances and energies. Through research on entities as love, politics, economy or other simple physical phenomena such as gravity, I intedtoobserve how all matter is entangled in a network of attractive forces that define their material, spiritual or ideological position.

My work connects sculpture with motion in a performative will. I use my work as a ddevice through which I extend a creative thought towards diverse spaces. I conceive my production as an unfolded system of dispersed sensitive situations that claim connection, as in a constellation.

I believe in artistic practice as a form of human activity that becomes (sometimes) a tangible existence. A form of sensitive thought in connection with doing and acting, a complex and multiple way of interacting with the world and its phenomena. Art is a way of generating knowledge in which the intellectual, the experiential and what we can build or do are connected, generating new situations. I believe that artistic work allows us to visualize interactions of our thought with reality, a type of human activity that becomes a thing, a situation or some other type of sensitive manifestation. Through the practice of art, we extend our thinking and infiltrate it into spaces of reality, which allows us to then make reflections and have new experiences.»

Biographie

Visual artist (Chile 1984), lives and works in Santiago. Holds a degree from ARCIS University (Chile, 2008) and a Master's degree in Art in the Public Sphere from ECAV (Switzerland, 2017). He has participated in several group exhibitions in South, Central and North America, Europe and Asia. His solo exhibitions include Telstar At Instituto Telearte (Chile, 2024), Rostro Humano at Sala Emilfork, Valparaiso Catholic University (Chile2004), Lo que se de mi cuerpo; lo que mi cuerpo sabe de mi, Paijan (Peru, 2023), Two Ways to disappear without losing the physical form, The Darling Foundry (Canada, 2019), Satelites and Wanderers, Points Center for Contemporary Art (China, 2019), Esta Tierra es tal, que para vivir en ella y perpetuarse no hay mejor, at the Galería Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 2017), Ciels, at the Musée de Art de Sion (Switzerland, 2017), and El ser tan bella no te da derecho a destruir, at the Museo de Artes Visuales (Chile, 2014).

He has won the MAVI Young Art Award (Chile, 2012), the Curatorial Award from the Culture Council (Chile, 2013), and the Americas Residency from the Montreal Arts Council (Canada, 2014), The Juan Downey Prize (2020).

Since 2011 she co-directs the art space Local Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile), where artists such as Gonzalo Díaz or Tris Vonna-Michell have exhibited their work. Local has participated in international art fairs in Chile, Argentina, the United States, Sweden and Spain.

Rendez-vous
friday, february 28, 2025
4:30pm
Movimax (Sierre, Route de l'Ancien Sierre 9)