Adriana González Brun
Bio
Multidisciplinary artist, architect and activist. Lives and works between Brasilea (Switzerland) and Asuncion (Paraguay). She’s been doing expositions collectively since the 90s. She had participated in the Venetian Biennial (2001), Mercosur’s Biennial (1999 and 2001), La Habana’s Biennial (2000 & 2003) and the Asuncion’s Biennial (2015 & 2017), amongst other internacional showings.
She’s won, amongst others, the First Price for Latin American Artist in the International Biennial in Buenos Aires (2022) with her piece Memorias de un Archivo.
Her work exhibits deep interest for social and political processes, reaching at times public forums and including the public in active participation. In the last decade consequences of human displacement has been a concern that is reflected in her work, same as personal drifts that make part of a highly technified society acostad by a vigilance system that scrutinizes daily life to its most minute details.
Statement
Ondulaciones de la memoria
Curated by Adriana Almada
The archives poetry and remission to memory gadgets have made up a huge part of contemporary artistic practices. Adriana Gonzalez Brun’s work does not scape said interests. Born under Stroessner’s dictatorial regime, with a dissident militancy running strong in her family, she has based her work on issues that range from social and political to intimate and private. Her language has always been transdisciplinary and has crossed installation, video, photography, sculpture, and engraving. In this expose one of the central nuclei is the sutil membrane of memory, just like fragility, vulnerability and the outdoors.
