Lihuel González’s work explores the invisible gaps that exist between language, interpersonal communication, and personal as well as social stories that are often overlooked. Through photography, video, sculpture and performance, González proposes a reinterpretation of the world around us, highlighting the fragments discarded by contemporary society. His projects reveal a poetics of the forgotten, where objects and marginal spaces are resignified as carriers of stories and metaphors about our interaction with the environment.
The beginning and end of things is a photographic archive that tries to find, through collecting and observing objects, which are out of service, new forms in what is generally considered a waste.
Through long drifts around the city I was collecting objects, small enough to be carried in my bag, and then photographed them in the studio. Portraits of small materials ranging from industrial remains to household and organic utensils .
Find something, retrieve it and look at it again. In these city tours I also collected words, anecdotes and memories that are part of the archive through epigraphs accompanying the images.
This project changes according to the exhibitor proposal. Understood as a series of episodes, the first chapter made in France in 2023, where it presents "The beginning and end of things: A city" in La Cité internationale des arts, based on the observation and intervention of objects found in the streets of Paris, to then work in the same way in the city of Buenos Aires crossing photographic images of the Parisian search with physical objects, from my city, in the exhibition hall. This second chapter was entitled "The Utilities" and took place in the gallery Gachi Prieto in March 2024.
