Irisol Gonzalez-Vega

I am obsessed with how learning builds ideas of value and self-worth; more specifically, my practice investigates how psychological conditioning in combination with human perception infer one’s experience of personhood, safety, and protection. Through paintings, assemblages, and installations, internalized and inconspicuous narratives of submission and social control, erupt. I recognize, appropriate, and requalify the value of domestic labor within a ubiquitous history of patriarchy by learning and experimenting with the properties and versatility of domestic tools. These aesthetic experiments are grounded on scientific inquiry and aim to highlight biases and subconscious patterns of responses to varying combinations of sensory and conditioned stimuli.

Current research focuses on visible light of the electromagnetic spectrum and imagines a new color structure that is in harmony with patterns and structures found in plants. This research provides a foundation to the direction of study regarding knowledge, systems of knowledge, and knowledge creation.