Constellations of the intangible. Luis González Palma

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

Through his work, González Palma experiments with the technical and formal solutions of photography, redefining the boundaries 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 the importance of beauty, reflection on power, and the concept of image and its perception by others stand out. He proposes a reflection on the gaze, a reflection of how we see others and how we see ourselves, linked to the awareness of not being seen and the unease 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 give meaning to the image, again in relation to the gaze and the capture not only of the individual, but of the human condition. And this idea frames the importance that portraiture has in his work, often in relation to formal solutions and to the viewer, who contemplates it without intermediaries.