Diego González Gómez

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Mountain Laurel
2025

Vidrio soplado, pantalla TFT, madera de cedro, silicon, video. 

Medidas: 50x60x90cm

Serie: What do flowers dream of?





Dreams are a space of rehearsal. Within them, the body folds inward and consciousness explores impossible territories: death, loss, euphoria, unrestrained desire. They are a primitive technology of simulation, a territory where the self rehearses its own vulnerability without breaking. To dream is a way of approaching what would be unbearable in waking life, an exercise of imagination that allows us to survive ourselves.

These flowers are hybrid organisms (glass, wood, and light) that are dreaming in order to rehearse the human, just as we dream to rehearse the possible. Inside each flower, a small screen displays images that could belong to its vegetal unconscious or to a human desire projected onto it. Dreaming is not an escape from the world, but a recognition of the most fragile and permeable part of existence.

Through them, these synthetic creatures confront their own limit, their inability to feel, their desire to do so, and in that gesture they reflect our own human condition: the impulse to seek feeling through the artificial. In a world where everything tends to harden, to dream is to allow something to tremble without breaking. The flowers, in their luminous stillness, seem to guard that tremor, a shared memory between the living and the fabricated, an intermediate state where vulnerability can still be beautiful.