Abraham González Pacheco
He is a visual artist, set designer and draftsman. Abraham González Pacheco’s work stems from an interest in and romanticisation of Mexican history, as well as the inexistence of a historical archive of his hometown, San Simón el Alto, located in the municipality of Malinalco in the south of the State of Mexico. From this, he imagines archaeological fictions through drawing, beginning with the landscape and its accelerated transformation linked to different political and identity interests, institutional corruption, population centralisation, and the city and its peripheries. With his work, he proposes an alternative narrative that responds to the gaps left by official history and, in doing so, questions the idea of identity imposed on a large part of the Mexican population.
These processes have given rise to various projects, such as Yacimiento 34, a fictitious archaeological site in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood in Mexico City. This work included a medium-depth excavation and a site museum that invited locals to glimpse their immediate past through the objects found. Abraham has dedicated himself to recording and reinterpreting these objects through drawings, generating a personal archaeology of them. His large-format drawings function as scenographic elements in public spaces and encourage other artistic agents to appropriate them; from this emerged Centros y Periferias Inestables, a project supported by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts 2016–2017 (FONCA) for young creators. He is founder of Obra Negra, contemporary graphic editions, focused on publishing and generating artistic links between young Mexican artists.
He has presented his work in different museums and cultural spaces in Mexico such as the Centro Cultural de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, the Museo Interactivo de Durango, the Museo Leopoldo Flores de Toluca, the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda and the Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes de Ciudad Universitaria (UNAM). His work is part of the collection of the Zuckerman Museum of Art (USA) and the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Italy).
