Diego González Gómez
Are we lisening to Schubert?
2025

Wood, paint, video.

Dimensions: 27x11x12cm



This piece was made for the exhibition De profundis (con headbanging), curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas at Espacio Cabeza.


Are we listening to Schubert? was commissioned for an exhibition curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas at Espacio Cabeza, organized around what gets discarded, what lives at the margins, what remains useless. Working as a carpenter, I thought about how the workshop produces no real waste, how every fragment can become something. So I looked for the pieces that genuinely could not be reused, the most irregular, the smallest, the ones with no future, and carved them by hand into six small rabbits.

The rabbits rest on the mantel of a fireplace. In front of them, set into a recess in the wall, a screen plays the Andante from Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 13, performed by Sviatoslav Richter. The scene is minimal, quiet, suspended in time. The rabbits listen, motionless, as if sharing a single moment of waiting.

Warmth in this piece does not come from the fire but from the encounter. Listening becomes a way of being together. Discarded material, once carved, recovers a form of attention, and residue becomes companionship.