Bárbara González is an architect and urban designer from Guadalajara, Mexico, currently based in Saskatoon, Canada.

Her work emerges from the need to navigate grief during the course of treatment that has distorted her perception of reality and reshaped how she understands herself—her body, her life as fragile, and her longing and possibility. Sound and movement in her pieces became the best—if not the only—tools for moving through the losses that accompany this uninvited guest.

Her installations function as spaces of transition where the most intimate is brought to light, inviting the spectator to experience what words are unable to contain.

Artist Statement:

The sea, the waves that come and go, have always been part of who I am. Yet, the same waves that once held me are now pulling me under, dragging me away from the beach.

Confusion, nausea, and a weight I cannot shake off.

This back and forth represents my inner struggle — the line between the urge to keep going and the desire to let myself be carried by the tide.

Serendipia II is an ongoing exploration of inhabiting a shifting terrain: my body and the sound wandering in my memories are in constant motion, seeking their own place. It combines recordings of my beloved sea, the Pacific Ocean, and everyday sounds from Maple Street, where time stretched and shrank in on itself during treatment. The layers of sound move between clarity and distortion, between calm and suffocation, echoing the fragile line between surrender and resistance.

Sound becomes a space where pain and stillness coexist — where memories and reality merge and distort like a fever dream.

This work speaks of volatility, sometimes resembling the wind that flies kites without a set direction, sometimes like the waves of the sea — always changing, always flowing.

Serendipia does not seek resolution. Instead, it dwells in the tension between loss and persistence, between dissolution and the quiet force that resists sinking. It becomes an attempt to translate the unspoken language of pain into a language that goes beyond words: a language of sound and movement.