Beronica Gonzales

Beronica Gonzales deals intensively with her self-perception in her works. She uses found materials – such as clothes passed down from her family or used bed sheets – that carry a personal history and reveal both the memory of the previous owners and the changes the object has undergone over the years. By reproducing these personal objects, she creates something like monuments to the everyday, reflecting both the process of change and her deep emotional attachments to things.
In her works, such as quilts, she reinforces this sense of connection and security through the forms and careful choice of materials. In the American context, quilts have a long history as a form of storytelling and resistance. They tell of family stories, of struggles and hope, of fleeting moments and collective experiences. For the artist, quilts are not only a symbol of home, but also a form of storytelling that weaves together personal history and collective experiences in subtle and powerful ways.
In her practice, Beronica Gonzales translates central themes and subjective feelings into different media, re-contextualizing them in combinations of materials and creative methods to enable a sensitive examination of the erosion of time and the emotional connections with things.