JUAN PABLO GONZÁLEZ

Juan Pablo González (*1985, Bogotá, Col) Lives and works in Switzerland.

Juan Pablo González is an artist with a multidisciplinary background in dance, theater, and performance. He has focused his work in the last 12 years on teaching and directing artists interested in transdisciplinary languages of the performing arts. He seeks to invite the visitors of his pieces to witness the transformation of the modes of expression towards a metadisciplinary gaze. This means, not thinking in dance but in movement, not thinking in theater but in action, not thinking in “the visual” but in the image.

He has performed for: Jerome Bell Company (Bog-Col 2012); Emilio Garcia Whebbi (Bog-Col 2013); José Alejandro Restrepo (Bog-Col 2013); Eric Létourneau (Bog-Col 2014); Siniestra Compañía (Bog-Col 2018, 2019, 2022/ Mexico D.F 2018); Marina Abramovic Retrospective (KunstHaus Zürich- CH. 2024-2025). His directed Works have been presented in Bogotá, Mexico D.F, Salvador da Bahía - Brasil and Switzerland.

Artist Statement

In “the other Solitude” the artist is wondering about revisiting one of the materials from his archive and venturing into a process of transformation, to distance himself from it and rediscover other of its essence. In principle, it is about the recorded voice of a homeless woman in Bogotá, Colombia, and her thoughts about “the woman”, “loss”, “the body”, “vulnerability”, “loneliness”.

In this process of consciously taking distance from this voice, but creating from it, is how the following questions arise: How can sound be transformed into image? How can the dismemberment of a text and its proliferation through space provide it with other eloquences and other aesthetics? How can the repetitive or the constant have the capacity to change? How can an image perform?

These questions develop thanks to having played with this material. To pendulate as far away from it as possible, and sometimes, inevitably swing back towards it. From trying to clean it of singularity. To separate it, to split it, to dismember it, to proliferate it, to reread it and to reorganize it.