Each fragment holds owned and remote lands, mixed with volcanic ashes moistened with sweat. Lines and shapes lay out the continuity to complete an apparent and phantasmagorical structure that attempts to reveal its final form, but the cracks slit every inch of the forged image, offering a window to the uncontrollable, to the chaotic flow of the unexpected, of the intangible.
 
Paderón is a second skin, a piece of wet and warm rock where you can see the fog coming out of the furrows. The branches ventilate, the barbed wire embraces but does not tear, and in that intimate escort, each of the pieces in this exhibition emerges, blending a series of moments that show up in an archaeological mystery, as a mural brought from a future moment, emphasizing horizons and compositions that have no core overflowing into space, where personal and historical narratives are fictionalized and forged in colors that come out of the gray concrete.
 
- Abraham González Pacheco.
  • Movimientos de la tierra, 2024 Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure. 210 x 120 cm 82 5/8...
    Movimientos de la tierra, 2024
    Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure.
    210 x 120 cm
    82 5/8 x 47 1/4 in
  • Panal, 2024 Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure. 102 x 40 cm 40 1/8 x 15 3/4...
    Panal, 2024
    Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure.
    102 x 40 cm
    40 1/8 x 15 3/4 in
  • 'Paderón is a gesture, a screenshot, a fragment of a mural of a possible or dystopic future, nourished by a...
    Asoleado, 2024
    Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure.
    57 x 56 cm
    22 1/2 x 22 in
    "Paderón is a gesture, a screenshot, a fragment of a mural of a possible or dystopic future, nourished by a series of anecdotes and questions, among them, the origin of his community and his family and the veracity of the official history imposed by the State."
  • Ofrenda, 2024 Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure. 102 x 156 cm 40 1/8 x 61 3/8...
    Ofrenda, 2024
    Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure.
    102 x 156 cm
    40 1/8 x 61 3/8 in
  • Señor Montaña, 2024 Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure. 128 x 128 cm 50 3/8 x 50...
    Señor Montaña, 2024
    Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure.
    128 x 128 cm
    50 3/8 x 50 3/8 in
  • Deidades, 2024 Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure. 140 x 117 cm 55 1/8 x 46 in
    Deidades, 2024
    Setting of concrete, pigments and graphite on metal structure.
    140 x 117 cm
    55 1/8 x 46 in
  • Paderón, Campeche, Mexico City, 2024
    Courtesy of the artist and Campeche, Mexico City Image credits: Ramiro Chaves @whitebalancemx
  • About the artist

    About the artist

    Abraham Gonzalez Pacheco (b. San Simón el Alto, Malinalco, Mexico, 1989) is a visual artist, set designer and draftsman. González Pacheco’s work stems from an interest in Mexican History and its romanticization, as well as the lack of an historical archive of his hometown, San Simón el Alto. Through drawing, he imagines archeological fictions which originate from landscapes and the observation of accelerated transformation due to political and identity-related interests, as well as institutional corruption and centralization of population in the cities. With his work, González Pacheco proposes an alternative narrative which nourishes from the gaps untold official History and through this notion thus questions the idea of “Identity” imposed in Mexican population.
     
    He is founder of Obra Negra, contemporary graphic editions, focused on publishing and generating artistic links between young Mexican artists.
     
    He has presented his work in Museo de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, Centro Cultural de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, Museo interactivo de Durango, the Museo Leopoldo Flores de Toluca, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda and Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes de Ciudad Universitaria (UNAM). His work is part of the collection of the Zuckerman Museum of Art (USA).