Muralist - Sculpture - Fine Arts
Exhibition Proposal: Our Guernica: "Clawed by Injustice Once More" A Mural for Our Time
Artist: Gonz Jove
Throughout my career, I have explored the cycles of injustice that define human history—cycles in which domination, colonization, and violence repeatedly rise to the surface. My work seeks to unearth these patterns, confront them, and give voice to those who have endured their weight.
I propose an exhibition that weaves together past and present through a deeply personal and urgent mural installation.
The exhibition will feature a curated selection of photos from my murals and preparatory drawings and instalation that deal explicitly with historical and contemporary human rights struggles here in the USA, Bolivia and throughout the world—from colonial displacement to state violence, racial injustice, and global conflict. These works reflect decades of engagement with communities and histories that resist erasure. Presented alongside these large-scale pieces will be sketchbooks, studies, and process materials—tracing the emotional and intellectual labor behind each work.
The centerpiece of the exhibition will be a new, original mural created specifically for the Biennial: Our Guernica. Inspired by Picasso’s response to the Spanish Civil War, this piece will confront the violence, upheaval, and authoritarianism of our current moment. It will reference contemporary events—racialized state violence, attacks on civil rights, war, displacement, and the rise of extremism—while rooted in a broader historical continuum. It will be a call to witness, a wall-sized scream, and a testament to those fighting for justice in our time.
We are living through a time of profound unrest—socially, politically, environmentally. What we are seeing today is not unprecedented, but an intensification of old forces. Through this exhibition, I aim to create space for reflection, resistance, and remembrance. This is not just a show about history—it is about the present moment, and the role art plays in recording and responding to it.
Our Guernica is meant to disturb, move, and inspire. It is a visual record of now—one that, I hope, will echo long beyond the walls that contain it.