Dos personas
Lihuel González (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986) is a photographer and audiovisual producer trained at the Universidad del Cine. In addition, she participated in art clinics with Gabriel Valansi, Hernán Marina and Alberto Goldenstein, and was part of the FNA - CONTI Training Program (2013), the ABC Program of the Pan y Arte Foundation (2013), and the Artists Program of the Torcuato Di Tella University in its 2014-2015 edition. She has held national and international exhibitions at Galería Gachi Prieto (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019 and 2024); Dallas Museum of Art (Texas, United States, 2018); Povvera (Berlin, Germany, 2018); UNLP Art Center (La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018) and Espacio Pira ADM (Mexico, 2016), among others. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, among which the following stand out: first prize in the UADE National Visual Arts Competition (2021), Mention of the Itaú Award for Visual Arts (2020), third prize in the 108 National Hall of Visual Arts in Argentina (2019), third prize in the National Visual Arts UADE Competition (2018), honorable mention from the Klemm Foundation Prize Jury (2016) and second Prize National Visual Arts Hall - MACA Museo Junín (2016). Likewise, in 2014 and 2018, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded her the Creation Scholarship to fund future projects.
Dos personas (2018)
Lihuel González
Selected by Fundación PROA, Argentina
Dos personas is an audiovisual project that brings two people together to have a conversation. Zhang Jing and Renaud have never met each other, they only know that their conversation partner does not share the same language, just their need to emigrate to a different country. The conversations that arise are spontaneous, they craft a catalog of gestures, voice tones and linguistic similarities that help decode what the other person is saying and thus try to create a new code to make themselves understood. Dos personas is a project that proposes a viewpoint to the feeling of uprooting, the difficulties that come up when we try to understand another and what happens in the process of adapting to a new culture. Subtle gestures and attempts at connection reflect a process of empathy and active listening, where each action seeks to overcome cultural and linguistic barriers. This project invites the viewer to reflect on the importance of solidarity and mutual understanding in a diverse and changing world