Alí González talks about his work

Translation:
My name is Alí González and my piece Archivología is from 1995. During those years my artistic interests were directed toward the representational power of fingerprints and their legal functions. I had a presentiment then that my country was inevitably headed towards civil disorder that would be lamentable and disproportionate. On the other hand, the deaths of a few family members and friends brought me to realize life’s fragility. That’s why I came to utilize and highly value fingerprints as each person’s remains. I always imagined that the archivology would take place in a specific place, the Supreme Court of Venezuela, for its symbolic character of collectivity and democracy as a kind of institutional ornament. When I see this work today, my impression is of having created a deposit of fingerprints in which the voice of a multitude resonates, pronouncing a small, succinct phrase: I swear.