Amparo González Sola – Gestures as portals

The month-long performance takes place during the dismantling of the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies by Mexican artist Alejandro Galván. Visitors encounter the performers in a house where remnants of the exhibition are still visible, alongside traces of its deconstruction and empty spaces.

Amparo González Sola resumes the questions and choreographic methods explored in While Taking Shape,* extending them into a durational, site-responsive format. For Marres, she develops a continuous performance that unfolds over four weeks, inviting visitors to spend as much time as they wish in the space. The work evolves daily, allowing the choreographic materials—and the space itself—to transform gradually through repetition, presence, and interaction.

Gestures are central to González Sola’s practice. She approaches them as portals to memory and connectors between bodies, shaped by context, inherited through generations, and always relational. During her time at Marres, she works with the gestures found in the rooms: those of the performers, the visitors, the workers, and traces from the former exhibition Vultures & Fireflies. These gestures are echoed, held, stretched in the space, repeated, reversed, reshaped: building a vocabulary of movement that slowly accumulates meaning.

The performance emerges from a growing sense of detachment in a world where terrible events are constantly projected onto our retinas through the media—an endless stream of images moving at high speed and stripped of context, seemingly freezing our ability to feel. How close does something need to happen before we feel a connection or a sense of responsibility? By focusing on small gestures, González Sola invites us to reconsider the dynamics of gaze, distance, and proximity as we reflect on what it means to bear witness.



*While Taking Shape is a dance performance created by Amparo Gonzalez Sola, premiered at SPRING Performing Arts Festival 2025.

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