Dionisio González

Dionisio González is a multidisciplinary artist who operates at the intersection of theoretical research, images and architecture; acting as a project designer or social regulator, he lays out propositional plans on real and almost always conflict-torn territories. He explores certain types of vernacular architecture that tend to be short-lived, because they were built without proper permits and subsequently “cleaned up” (demolished and razed) by municipal authorities, because distinctive “native” dwellings are often over-exposed to hordes of gawking tourists, or because irresponsible builders, in order to reduce their tax burden, create flimsy structures in areas where the forces of nature will almost certainly reduce them to rubble and extinction.

In a way, the artist’s ideas are intimately bound up with the desire not just to intervene but to actively interfere in a specific, dramatic problem. Ultimately, he attempts to take a social stance in defence of these settlements, advocating not their eradication but their improvement, which is the same as intervention: an alteration of the pre-existing “cartography”.