Asleep, he was a strange symbol.

Gonzalo Morales Leiva

06 September - 11 Oktober 2025

“Asleep, he was a strange symbol.” is rooted in the poetic and emotional landscape of Chile’s Central Valley. Drawing from The Poem of the Poor Lands (1924) by Jorge González Bastías, the artist enters a dialogue with a territory marked by silence, migration, and erased ancestral memory.

Through a performative process of transcribing the poem by hand—sometimes fast and forceful, other times slow and nearly invisible—visual forms began to emerge. These became drawings, sculptures, video-performance, and live performance.

The exhibition unfolds from an intuitive, meditative state that treats poetry not just as text, but as a point of access—a key that opens the way to a symbolic language. Through this act—part invocation, part transcription—symbols begin to surface: fragments of an inner language shaped by body, territory, and time. What appears is a rural aesthetic: rare, simple, and mysterious. The works suggest a search for refuge and identity—something felt, not fully understood, asking to be seen.

Thursday-Saturday
13:00-18:00
Or on appointment