Amaya González | Spain

Born in the Spanish region of Galicia, Amaya González is presently finishing her PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Vigo. Since 2003 she has been presenting her multidisciplinary work in different events, festivals and exhibitions, either individually or collectively, spanning from the Galician region, to the rest of the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain), England, Germany, etc.

Amaya develops her work in the areas of photography, video and performance, namely in public spaces, having the artist created several pieces that combine a reflection full of irony on the codes and social behaviors with a research on the act of looking, summoning new perspectives (literally) to see the urban space and the corresponding human actions. In this particular, are worth being mentioned the video pieces “s.t. (crane)” from 2006, “s.t. (first essay for a round movie”)” and “s.t. (truck)”, both from 2005.

Project: Transgression (Or the first essay on the innecessary possibility of building a border to my dimension)
Category: Visual Arts
Period: September 2007
Event: Art Residency (Fronte[i]ras 07 Meeting)

A border is a line drawn in a map. A line can be made by anyone. Even a child can draw a line on a map and that is enough to delimit space. A line has a starting and an ending point and many other points in the middle, from which we could draw other lines. Each one can delimit its own border on that space, which has its surrounding region; each person can create a limit and also can try to set limits to his/herself or even transfer those limits to others.

The project I presented didn't have very precise limits: it was open, because I am not capable to delimit what I will do when the moment arrives. Even though, my project had the intention to be one more proposal about one more theme, because I don’t normally work in this direction. On the contrary, I try not to have a clear direction. A border is by definition a limit, but anything can be a border, everything can be a wall, and everything can fall down.

I proposed a game, a game with a pencil on a sheet of paper, with a stick on a road, with a nail on a wall, with the body on the ground, with a rope in the air…. I wanted to search borders and trespassing them, search irrigation streams and jump from one side to the other… a bridge annuls a border, or doesn’t annul but makes possible its transgression.

I wanted to deal with the idea of border beyond the possible, search the border of visible, the limit of border… I cannot define better this idea because it has no limits and I wanted to work in the space itself, with its conditions and elements. In the end, maybe there was new borders or it was impossible to find its limits.

Project's photo selection (art residency, public presentations and exhibition):