Sensitive Discontinuities, Workshop by Javier González Pesce

SENSITIVE DISCONTINUITIES, WORKSHOP BY JAVIER GONZÁLEZ PESCE

The visual artist and independent curator held a workshop at the ISLA Center for Artistic Residencies that sought to stress the significant, latent, and manifest dimensions of public space. The meeting on Tuesday, the 7th of December at 5 p.m, took place in two sessions. During the first, the main research, works, and exhibitions of the artist were shared; in the second, a tour of the surroundings of ISLA was suggested, so that the participants could propose interventions or experiences linked to the territory, which culminated in the production of fleeting works on the coast of the southern sector of the city of Antofagasta. Everything can motivate creation if a sharp, playful and unprejudiced sensibility has been cultivated, one that appreciates the fragile, the mobile and the ephemeral of the surrounding reality.

In the first block, the artist presented the common interests of his work, linked to sculpture, objects, volume, installation, and public space, crossed by a critical and reflective conscience, capable of feeling, reviewing and dialoging with the different social, historical and political realities in which his work is inserted or interferes. In this regard, Gonzalez Pesce highlighted the potential dialog promoted by the intrusion of a contemporary work of art in a given environment, even if it is subtle or ephemeral, abrupt or permanent. From his point of view, everything, in one way or another, can motivate creation, even more so, a sculptural piece, if a sharp, playful and unprejudiced sensibility has been cultivated, one that appreciates the fragile, the mobile and the ephemeral of the surrounding reality.