Constellations of the intangible. Luis González Palma

Photographer Luis González Palma (Guatemala, 1957) presents a retrospective of his work, articulated through thematic constellations that encompass his creative universe. Among the works in the exhibition are those created between 2014 and 2015 as part of the Museum's Tender Puentes program.

Through his work, González Palma experiments with the technical and formal solutions of photography, in a redefinition of the limits between photography and painting, influenced by his training as an architect and his approach to religious painting, which also generated an interest in abstraction. In his work we can see a series of recurring motifs, among which stand out the importance of beauty, reflection on power and the concept of image and its perception by others. He poses a reflection on the gaze, a reflection of how we see the other and how we see ourselves, linked to the awareness of not being seen, and the uneasiness that this causes. Through his work we see an evolution from concepts linked to identity and memory to the coexistence of abstraction and figuration, because for him both have the same purpose, to understand and make sense of the image, again in relation to the gaze and the capture not only of the individual, but of the human condition. And in this idea is framed the importance that the portrait has in his work, often in relation to formal solutions and the viewer, who contemplates it without intermediaries.