Ana Gonzalez Barragán

Gonzalez focuses on the histories—cultural, geological, and political—of different stones and minerals. She creates sculptural objects and installations that explore and amplify the metaphoric potential of geologic bodies. At the same time, Gonzalez uses time-based media and oral history-taking to document 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, to reflect on our relationship with our planet with its very different sense of scale and temporality and an awareness of the narratives, both natural and cultural, embedded in these ancient materials. 

M.F.A., Sculpture and Post-Studio Practice, University of Colorado- Boulder