Intuitive Practice

Paloma González’s painting presents a complex and dynamic composition, filled with multiple elements and forms that intertwine and overlap. This creates a sense of movement and energy within the work—one that arises from the artist’s unsettling and disquieting inner force.

The colors in Paloma’s painting are vibrant and juxtaposed, with warm and cool tones contrasting to reveal content that oscillates between alchemy and the feminine power of creation and destruction. It may seek to evoke the intense emotions found in Calafia, the mythical island from García Ordóñez de Montalvo’s 1510 novel The Adventures of Esplandián. In the story, Calafia is a paradisiacal island inhabited by warrior women, akin to the Amazons of Greek mythology. The novel is believed to have influenced the naming of California—the territory from which Paloma and her family originate.

In Paloma’s drawings and paintings, certain figures and forms can be discerned that seem to represent faces, hands, and other anthropomorphic elements. These figures are woven into compositions that suggest a narrative of textures fluctuating between a liberated sexuality and a creative flow swirling between matter and invisibility.

In the installation made of paper, grapefruits, branches, knives, and air-dry clay, continuous lines and gestures generate a depth of time and space. By combining bidimensionality with the third dimension, Paloma’s discourse takes shape: life emerges from the line—branch, knife—that intersects the grapefruit as a spherical emblem of becoming.

olgaMargarita dávila 

Chief curator

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