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.


Six small hand-carved wooden 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—a minimal, almost domestic room—appears suspended in time: the rabbits listen, motionless, as if sharing a single moment of waiting.

The figures emerge from the remnants of a carpentry workshop, fragments of wood too irregular or too small to serve any other purpose. Discarded material that, once carved, recovers a form of attention: the time of the hands that transform it and return it to the world. In their apparent uselessness, these fragments become small presences that suggest affection, a form of care that turns residue into companionship.

Are we listening to Schubert? unfolds as a scene in which warmth does not come from the fire of the fireplace but from a silent encounter. A moment in which listening becomes a way of being— a place where time comes to a halt and bodies accompany one another without speaking.