CATALINA GONZÁLEZ

(Santiago, 1979)

In the artist’s words, González is “interested in disclosing how, with the passing of time, memory and ideas become layered one atop the other.” After living in the northern region of Tarapacá for four years, she attended a procession to a graveyard in Pisagua, organized by relatives of people disappeared by the Pinochet dictatorship. During the ceremony, she discovered an aspect of the events that encouraged her to research the history of prisons in the region during the governments of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Gabriel González Videla, and Augusto Pinochet. The outcome of that experience is Convolutions (2017), a video featuring four women—former political prisoners—enacting repetitive movements inspired by images taken in 1974 by Spanish photographer Miguel Herberg at the site of the Pisagua prison.