Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez
Bogota, Colombia/ NYC
Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez is a lens-based artist and researcher from Bogota, Colombia. His direct yet delicate image-making approach traverses the paths of documentary and fine art photography while exploring settings of human behaviour and its emotional nexus with the land.
His most frequent subject is how mankind and nature interact and coexist and how time alters the relations between the two. He is the co-founder of Antics Publications, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
His most recent project Chilluns’ Croon investigates themes of the past such as absence, remembrance, spirituality, and mortality of formerly enslaved people of Wilson County, North Carolina. Chilluns’ Croon incorporates old transcripts from the Federal Writers Project (FWP) featuring interviews with formerly enslaved African Americans. Together, the compilation of documents reveals old spiritual beliefs and stories of love and loss from the time of slavery and segregation in the United States.