Jezabeth Roca Gonzàlez

Jezabeth Roca Gonzàlez is a multidisciplinary maker and educator working in collaboration with their family. Through multimedia installations Jezabeth makes use of video, soil, and plants to explore the intimacy of place and the ever-shifting, migratory movement of people between the U.S. and Puerto Rico–known colloquially as El Va y Ven.

By implementing autobiographical methods they explore the banality of everyday life. Invested in generating visual records of their own family dynamics, which include themes of generational difference, altered landscape, and the cultures and aesthetics of care. Combining and contrasting the autobiographical with the speculative, Jezabeth constructs video vignettes and builds multiple, parallel realms that question the manner in which colonial legacies shape the land, their own cuirness as an abstraction, and the duality inherent in everyday life.

Roca González is an Instructor of Record for the Film & Video Department at The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). They have also been awarded numerous residencies, including the University of the Arts iLAB residency, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, and Feminist Art Collective Artscape. Their work has been screened or exhibited internationally including at Taller Comunidad La Goyco (San Juan), Temple Contemporary (Philadelphia), as part of Video Caribx at Documenta Fifteen (Kassel) Germany, and Hessel Museum of Art (New York) CCS Bard College.