Collection: UNRESOLVED - GeoVanna Gonzalez & Jonathan Gonzalez

Throughout 2020, many of us have been forced to restructure our domestic spaces into work/living realms. And we have had to adapt not just our physical space, but our mental space too. Our sleep cycles, our time management, our leisure periods – all have been confined, all have been reprogrammed. The boundaries between work and leisure, between labor and rest, between public and private, are more compromised than ever.

Gonzalez & Gonzalez’s UNRESOLVED collection explores how design and art are complicit in that reprogramming, and how they can act as tools of resistance. The ur-object of each piece in the collection is a tool of creative labor. The iconography is derived from forms that are understandable to everyone (ladder; flood light; pencil; eraser). The new readings offered by Gonzalez & Gonzalez, their reprogramming of these recognizable objects, merges the iconic formal qualities of the “original” objects with concepts relating to the precarity of creative labor.

The collection makes visible the ways in which tools and programs (from pencils to screens, chairs to software) are used to firmly resolve and repose us, to sit us down, to tie us to capitalist function.