GONZALO JAVIER MORALES LEIVA
Visual Artist - Chile.
GLOGAUAIR BERLIN, GERMANY OCTOBER DECEMBER 2022
GlogauAIR is a non-profit art residency and residence created in 2006 by Chema Alvargonzalez and currently supported by Memoria Artística Chema Alvargonzalez, in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
GlogauAIR Residence Study, Berlin, Germany, 2022
In this residency I used my own body in the creation of my works. The drawing experience lived in the last residence in Mexico gave me the awareness of the performativity of drawing and I wanted to extreme that experience with the arrangement of sheets of paper on the floor and the use of my feet as drawing tools. In my photographic work, the destruction of the ruin is tense with the symmetry of the frame, the social trauma is in tune with my own traumatic experiences. On this occasion in Berlin, I wanted to take a leap towards meditation and performance as a way to induce a healing process. I experimented in my studio with different ways of performing and drawing, I used my hands, my feet, dance, and slow walking. Little by little my work began to expand towards the experience of the body, the experience of drawing and the experience of sound. Coming into contact with the basic materials of drawing allowed me to know the vibrancy of the non-human life and incorporate a new ecological awareness until that moment.
I called the result of the experience at GlogauAIR “Methodology to go from the surface to the body through the materiality of drawing” and this methodology is the synthesis that unifies my photographic work with drawing, sculpture, performance and installation.
Beginnings of “Methodology to transit from the surface to the body through the materiality of the drawing”
October 2022
GlogauAIR Residence Study, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Afterglow
Drawing work installed in the showcase of the GlogauAIR residence, OCTOBER 2022
Drawing
Dry pastel and graphite on Fabriano paper 200 grams
48 x 35.5 each
Ashes in the window opening
GlogauAIR showcase, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Experimentation
Expanded drawing, performance and monocopy of powdered charcoal
GlogauAIR Residence Study, Berlin, Germany, 2022
GlogauAIR Residence Study, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Open Studio
Final exhibition at the closing of the GlogauAIR residency - December 2022