For this week’s CultureHop, Culture Club Members will be hopping over to BMoCA for a guided tour of Ana González Barragán’s current InsideOut installation Intimacy with a (non) site. This immersive installation explores the intersections of identity, environment, and materiality, offering a unique perspective on how we connect with spaces and the natural world.

About the Artist: Ana González Barragán (b. Mexico City, 1989) is an artist and researcher focused on the histories — cultural, geological, and political — of different stones and minerals. Working in obsidian, marble, and other materials with long aesthetic traditions, González Barragán creates sculptural objects and installations that explore and amplify the metaphoric potential of geologic bodies, paying careful attention to their own complex histories, detectable in veins, cracks, and gradations of tone. In her practice, González Barragán also uses time-based media and oral history-taking to register the extractive (and often violent and exploitative) processes long associated with these materials, from the gender politics and labor practices of mining to the ecological impacts of industrial capitalism.