Francisco González Castro (Santiago, Chile, 1984) works as a writer and artist. As a writer, he has published several books on art and politics, as well as essays in various books and magazines. As an artist, he works in different media, from performance art, video, and painting to drawing and ceramics. He has exhibited his work in different countries, both in museums and galleries and in community spaces.
As an artist, he has developed his work since 2005 with exhibitions and presentations, both individual and collective, in Chile (Santiago, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Concepción and Valdivia) as well as abroad (Sweden, Germany, Spain, France and the United States).
He has also undertaken various projects as curator, focused on establishing relationships between artists of different generations around issues of art and society.
His research addresses the relationship between art and politics and the development of the concept of the political-artistic, as well as a critique of modern art as a capitalist product and tool. He also researches anarchism and eroticism. In philosophy, his central focus is on Nietzsche, Bataille, and the Marquis de Sade.
He has worked in different educational institutions in vulnerable contexts, as an assistant for various undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Arts of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and as a professor at Universidad UNIACC.
To Kill a King: Considerations for a political-artistic practice (2024)
Out of Place: Texts on artistic, political, and affective practices (2023)
Points on the Border. Chronicle of a journey along the Mexico-United States border (2022)
Art as Revolution. Debates, Networks, and Contemporary Issues of the Institute of Latin American Art (2022). Book co-authored with Lucy Quezada and Claudia Cofré.
Mário Pedrosa and CISAC. Affective, Artistic, and Political Configurations (2019).
