**A HAND AT THE EDGE OF SHADOW**
Ricardo González
"Painting from the ugliest painting. A painting almost in disaster and quietly getting out of there, without heroics… just what it is: a moment of awareness in the now."
— Albert Oehlen
"The first thought that flutters in those heads is of a bacteriological nature…"
— Tristan Tzara
This exhibition explores the pictorial trajectory of Mexican artist Ricardo González (CDMX, 1977), currently based in New York, through a selection of recent paintings in various formats.
In his work, González blends abstract and figurative elements with temperamental gestures and imagery loaded with ambiguous narratives. His compositions reject linearity and homogeneity, opening themselves to multiple possibilities of interpretation.
His painting is visceral—an ongoing intensity—an intuitive act open to uncertainty, risk, and transformation. His exploration moves between the raw and the unexpected, embracing error and spontaneity as essential components of the pictorial process.
A sharp, acidic humor runs through his work—not as a comedic device, but as a disruptive gesture that challenges the viewer to question reality and the notion of what is "worth painting." However, beyond a critique of the medium itself, his work also flirts with nihilism, examining the fragility of existence and the absence of absolute meaning. Through the repetition of visual elements, he dares us to find our own sense of meaning within a chaotic world.
**Curatorial proposal by Daniela Elbahara Gallery**