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InsideOut Opening Reception for Ana González Barragán
For BMoCA’s Inside/Out commission, González Barragán created a site-specific installation using cast-off gray Yule marble from the Yule Marble Quarry (Marble, Colorado). Positioned as a metaphor for the act of extraction, Intimacy with a (non) site references female anatomy by evocatively threading a steel pipe through drilled holes, led by a phallic-shaped drill bit used in industrial coal mining.
Ana González Barragán (b. Mexico City, 1989) is an artist and researcher focused on the histories — cultural, geological, and political — of different stones and minerals. Working in obsidian, marble, and other materials with long aesthetic traditions, González Barragán creates sculptural objects and installations that explore and amplify the metaphoric potential of geologic bodies, paying careful attention to their own complex histories, detectable in veins, cracks, and gradations of tone. In her practice, González Barragán also uses time-based media and oral history-taking to register the extractive (and often violent and exploitative) processes long associated with these materials, from the gender politics and labor practices of mining to the ecological impacts of industrial capitalism.
About InsideOut
BMoCA InsideOut features rotating commissions from local and international artists who push the boundaries of art within the public realm. Bringing the conversation beyond the museum’s walls, the projects aim to generate responsible criticism, foster active public disclosure, and pique the community’s interest in the evolving field of contemporary art.
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