Gonzalo Guzmán (Madrid, 1991) is a Spanish sculptor whose work begins with images that emerge in dreams: reduced, enigmatic presences that seem to exist prior to language, often evoking archetypal structures such as menhirs or dolmens. Rather than reproducing these images, his practice explores the possibility of bringing them into the physical world without fully translating or fixing their meaning.
Central to his work is hydroforming, an industrial process in which water pressure expands welded sheets of stainless steel from within. Removed from its conventional function of precision and repetition, the technique becomes a process of indeterminacy in which form emerges through the interaction of pressure, resistance, and material limits. Water acts simultaneously as a shaping force and an uncontrollable element, leaving behind the trace of a transient event. Guzmán’s broader research focuses on ideas of co-authorship and collaboration with nature, developing processes in which natural forces are not simply tools for making, but active participants in determining the final form.
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