A Room’s Proportion is a superimposition of Gonzales’ familial architecture on the existing walls of YYZ Artists’ Outlet. A curtain made of acrylic paint on jusi and piña silk spans the gallery’s back wall, its height mimicking that of a basement wall covering from a previous home in Saudi Arabia, a home Gonzales’ parents lived in before she was born. Reproducing a version of this curtain does not come from the desire to recreate the space precisely, but through finding symmetry in the form, it creates a parallel experience. It doesn’t claim to be wholly accurate or pure imitation. The proportions allow one to instead linger in the memory of a room while also leaving space for it to exist as something else entirely.

Gonzales’ practice investigates the materiality of painting, soft architecture, and narratives of migration as related to the Filipino diaspora. Having moved with her family across countries and cities, she uses her homes as the structure for her work, building spaces digitally and translating them into paintings, which expand into site-responsive installations.

Special thank you to my family, Unit 17, Bianca Weeko Martin, Patrick Cruz, Ana Barajas and YYZ Artists’ Outlet.