He is a visual artist, set designer and draftsman. Abraham González Pacheco’s work stems from an interest in and romanticization of Mexican history, as well as the inexistence of a historical archive of his hometown, San Simón el Alto, located in the municipality of Malinalco in the south of the State of Mexico. From this, he imagines archaeological fictions through drawing, starting from the landscape and its accelerated transformation linked to different political and identity interests, institutional corruption, centralization of the population, and the city and its peripheries. With his work he proposes an alternative narrative that feeds back on the gaps left by the official history and also manages in this exercise to question the idea of “identity” imposed on a large part of the Mexican population.
These processes have given rise to various projects, such as Yacimiento 34, a fictitious archaeological site in the Buenos Aires neighborhood in Mexico City. This work included a medium-depth excavation and a site museum that invited locals to take a glimpse into their immediate past through the objects found. Abraham has dedicated himself to recording and reinterpreting these objects through drawings, generating a personal archaeology of them.
His large-format drawings function as scenographic elements in public spaces and exhort other artistic agents to appropriate them: from there was born Centros y Periferias Inestables, a project supported by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) for young creators, 2016-2017. In 2018-2019 he presented Las piedras hablan cuando la historia calla also supported by FONCA, a direct intervention in a landscape that consisted of a monument that does not commemorate anything, serving only as a place for recreation or attached to nature.
He is the founder of Obra Negra, contemporary graphic editions, focused on publishing and generating artistic links between young Mexican artists. He is currently working on the project Monopolítico suspendido, supported by FONCA with the grant for young Mexican artists, 2023-2024.
Recently he participated in the 59th Carnegie International Biennial and this November, he will participate in the Yucatán Biennial, under the artistic direction of Abraham Cruzvillegas. He has presented his work at the Museo Tamayo (MX), Museo Experimental el Eco (MX), Casa del Lago (MX), Museo Unviersitario de Ciencias y Artes (MX), Museo de Arte de São Paulo (BR); the Centro Cultural de las Artes de San Luis Potosí; Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (MX). His work is part of the collection of Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino (IT) and the Zuckerman Museum of Art (USA).