Bernardo Gonzalo Leon Gomez

"Fish and thought" 
These days of confinement I was able to return to the passages of my childhood through this electro-light toy fish, so the game becomes the thought, the action and the occurrence of something that is happening; as Johan Huizinga says: "The game is older than the culture."

Fish and thought / Gonzalo Rabanal / 2020 / Artist's House-Workshop / Photo: Gonzalo Rabanal

leveling the light
leveling the light / Gonzalo Rabanal / 2020 / Artist's House-Workshop / Photo: Gonzalo Rabanal

state of alert
state of alert / Gonzalo Rabanal / 2020 / Artist's House-Workshop / Photo:Gonzalo Rabanal

My work begins with discovering Latin American visual poetry, objectuality being the signifier of poetic expression; From that stage I joined the work in the traditional engraving workshop, later becoming interested in photography and video; it was my beginning with an overload of stimuli that became what is the language of performance.
I studied audiovisual communication and then went to the University of Chile and started my degree in Visual Arts, concluding with a master's degree in Visual Arts at PUCC.

I decided to do an action in five steps, to open a reflection, the state of the question, about the habitable darkness, what is hidden or covered because it is intimate. Busy Lamp is a neon with a 12 volt battery charge, which would be a precarious version of institutional neon in art (I mean neon in the days of concept and pop presentation). Working with Light inside my house-workshop brings back the question of the public-private of the body, in this case the light-darkness being the revealer of the image, like the old school of analog photography (“the work of art in the era of technical reproduction ”or“ the little history of photography ”Walter Benjamin), its counterpart being the digital image that allows the body to be virtualized. At the bottom of this formality, darkness emerges as dominant, which allows and originates the passage of light and the revelation of the body as a rebellion against the current imposed state.

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