From the ground we walk on to the water embedded in the air we breathe to the shadows that cling to our feet, the work of h.r.g. (b. Guatemala City, Guatemala) is steeped in issues of desire, labor, and visibility. By building entangled systems of unseen performance, sound, light, architectural intervention, and objects, he creates speculative spaces and encounters rooted in the inherent realities of materials, objects, spaces, and bodies. Through strategies that reorient and disorient industrial and domestic materials, objects, and processes embedded within our bodies, he aims to coax out and all but exhaust the limits of their poetic and aesthetic potential. These gestures tune our attention not only for deep, empathetic looking, but also to the potential held within space, material, and form. Ultimately with the hope that by recalibrating the way we look and by extension care, his practice can impact how we encounter one another, recognizing that these systems of relation reflect broader systems of power and oppression in our culture at large.
His work has been exhibited extensively, including exhibitions at After / Time (Portland, OR), Material Room (Richmond, VA), Coco Hunday (Tampa, FL), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), Nuwu Art Gallery (Las Vegas, NV), The Holland Project (Reno, NV), Baitball Art Fair (Polignano a Mare, Italy), Other Places Art Fair (San Pedro, CA), Zygote Press (Cleveland, OH), Sky Lab Gallery (Columbus, OH), Aviary Gallery (Boston, MA), Carnation Contemporary (Portland, OR), Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA), and Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). He holds a BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Sculpture and a BA in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is currently based out of Richmond, VA where he is an MFA Candidate in the Sculpture + Extended Media program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).