Chilluns’ Croon
Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez | OD Photo Prize 2022
“Based on the historical archive Black Wide-Awake (documents of genealogical and historical interest of Wilson County, North Carolina’s African-American past curated by Lisa Y. Henderson) Chilluns’ Croon investigates themes of slavery, absence, remembrance, spirituality, mortality and morality of African American families from Wilson, NC. Reflecting on old transcripts from the Federal Writers Project – told by African former slaves, the symbolic series is a compilation of photographs that resembled old spiritual beliefs and stories of love and loss from the time of slavery. A modern crumbling landscape where new generations from families of freed slaves keep fighting for equality and awareness.” – Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez, 2022
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: File of Life (Hotel Cherry), 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Old Plantation Barn, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Temple of Deliverance, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Sundial, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Tracy, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Diamondback Rattlesnake, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Lodge St, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: A Goodnight Goodbye (Hominy Swamp), 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: John Howard (Hands), 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Untitled, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: House, 2021
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Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez: Corn (In Memory of Willie B. Isom), 2021