Uruguayos / Uruguayans (XLV-3) - Pilar González (III) [Dibujo, Ilustración / Drawing, Illustration]

SR: The empowerment of women through the discovery of their own body is a recurring theme in your work. Is it still necessary to focus on these themes in the feminist struggle?

PG: Mine has never been an emblematic feminist painting, yes, feminine, yes, of women. I've never been a pamphleteer, but rather I suggest things that the viewer will later decipher in one way or another. I don't like socialist realism, I don't like the explicit, I don't like using a work in terms of an idea. Art has value in itself.

SR: I know that you are a studious of different cultures and like to read about Art History. How do you deal with the versions of famous works that you can make intimately of yourself and then take them out with your pen?

PG: I am not a studious at all! I haven't done systematic studies of other cultures. I am, yes, very curious, respectful, and I am passionate about seeing them, feeling them, and putting them in me to enrich myself. That's why, as you know, I love to travel, to travel through other lands, to get in touch with other people, to dialogue, to know how they think, how they feel, what we look like and how we differ. When this happens, when I am in places of powerful cultures, a kind of very strong emotional bond emerges in me that It's a shock. Later, already at home, after the trip, some drawing or painting comes out, generally not right away but some time later. It turns out to be the excited vision of what I perceived, what It happened inside me in the face of certain discoveries, never directly from what I saw. It is the only thing I have as a concrete reference, the outside I can only perceive it to through me.

It is always about one, even if it seems self-centered. It's always about what happened to me in the face of different stimuli, different vicissitudes of life, in different places, with different people.

SR: Does the physical place where it is created matter? In your case, what does your space have to have no matter what in order to create?

PG: No matter what, when I start my task drawing or painting, my whole house must be in order. That is one of my obsessions that I have already accepted because they make what I am.

At one time I lived in spacious places that allowed me to make large works. Then everything changed, my apartment is the studio and I don't have enough space to return to those formats. But in spite of that, I still need to say things with my work and then that ability to adapt that we all have arises.

Therefore, I continue on the path, trying to overcome the difficulties that arise and that sometimes become challenges.