Beatriz González x Young Creatives Tours

SAT 9 MAY

Soledad Santana's Tour
Soledad Santana invites participants to share in her reflections on how Gonzalez’s work dialogues with present fears around injustice, political violence and power. Drawing from critical theory, Soledad takes Gonzalez’s work as a response to a politics of death, which explores not only how powerful actors subjugate life, in its many forms, to death but also the critical role that grief therefore plays in demanding the protection of one’s inherent dignity. 

Soledad encourages participants to move through Gonzalez’s artistic representations while interrogating, from the body and as informed by lived experiences: how do we, individually and collectively, reconcile experiences, testimonies, and images of violence with our daily life, and with our understanding of our place in the world? 

The design of the tour is informed by Soledad’s studies in critical and feminist theory and by her poetic practice, which insists that art is here to tell us about what we fear, and why.

Soledad Santana is a writer obsessed with the consistency of fear. Inspired by Latin American gothic and feminist literature, her work explores fear's unequal distribution in society. She is interested in how structural violence emerges in the intimate sphere. Her poetry has been published in the Aftershock Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and more.

Sena Gikunoo's Tour
In a letter, artist Luis Caballero hails Beatriz González as ‘the only person in Colombia who has been able to produce Colombian paintings.’ Throughout the tour, we will consider this statement, exploring the local references and cultural context relevant to González’s work. At the end of the tour participants will have time to create drawings and place these in their own cultural context using González's work as a reference.

Sena Gikunoo is an assistant producer currently working in advertising with a background in film programming and film writing. She has contributed to multiple film festivals and brings experience in facilitation and collaborative practice. Sena is passionate about fostering openness, inclusivity and meaningful discussions within the arts and wider creative communities.

Georgia Hardcastle's Tour
Explore Beatriz Gonzalez's approach to bearing witness through portrayals of women, their agency and the means of production. Influenced by her own interest in performance and textural work, Georgia Hardcastle will provide sensory elements to explore materials used throughout this tour.

Georgia is a theatre maker and community arts practitioner based in London. She is Artistic Director of Matipo Arts CIC and her creative practice prioritises collaborative process. She often describes her work as ‘Silly yet serious’ with a focus on evoking playful, empathetic expressions of the human condition. Her facilitation work encourages self-expression through social art. Georgia is a graduate of Norwich University of the Arts.

SUN 10 MAY

Sahar Hamidollah's Tour
Sahar welcomes the audience to approach Beatriz González’s work with her, exploring the overlap of conflict and womanhood. Nina Simone famously declared it an artist's duty to reflect the times, and González immortalised the duality of life and conflict within this 'nation of witnesses'. Sahar hopes to explore how women are situated within bodies of conflict and how González remembered them, despite González rejecting the label of feminism to the very end.

Sahar is a documentary researcher, with a background in film programming. She brings a considered eye to how stories are selected, framed, and shared with audiences. Graduating from university with a politics degree, she retains a focus on 'Middle Eastern' and Global South perspectives, drawn to work that takes the wider world seriously and refuses to look away from complexity. Outside of her research, Sahar pursues her own photography practice; a more personal, exploratory thread running alongside her professional life. What ties it all together is a genuine love of communal work, one that puts her in conversation with people she'd never otherwise meet and finding something worth paying attention to in those encounters.

Cia Mangat's Tour
Drawing on the same techniques Beatriz González brought to her work - borrowing, collaging, using unexpected colour and shape - Cia's tour invites you to learn more about and creatively respond to Beatriz Gonzalez's work, with an emphasis on slowing down and noticing the tiny details. Each participant will receive a zine-style workbook which you can take away and use to keep reflecting on Gonzalez's practice long after the exhibition closes.

Cia Mangat is a poet from London. Her work has been published in fourteen poems, gal-dem, Propel, and bath magg, and has been broadcast by the BBC. She founded and edited Zindabad, a zine for people in diasporas worldwide, facilitates writing and zine-making workshops, and was selected for the 2026 Mayday Rooms & PageMasters Print Residency. Her debut pamphlet Lobe is out with The Poetry Business.

Elia Isaac's Tour

Beatriz González’s work grasped something about the image-saturated world we now live in: what happens when violence, glamour, grief, kitsch and ordinary life all pile up together. Moving through a handful of selected works, this tour considers how González built an artistic practice from already-circulating images — press clippings, reproductions, postcards, television reports, official photographs — and asks what happens when images of political violence and grief enter the same visual stream as everyday life. Led by a writer rather than an art historian, and informed by Elia's recent experience of political solidarity work, the tour takes a relaxed, personal approach to González's work - no prior knowledge is needed. Through reflections and discussion, participants are invited to think about how images move us, numb us, or stay with us, and what kind of looking remains possible. 
This tour includes references to political violence, grief, and recent/ongoing conflicts.

Elia Isaac is a writer living in southeast London, working across poetry, theatre and literary fiction. Growing up with a stutter, Elia turned to writing as a place where language could move at their own pace. They won the 2024 Verve Poetry Festival Competition and the 2025 Disabled Poetry Prize and were runners-up in the 2025 Aurora Poetry Prize. In the past year, their work has been supported by Audible's Emerging Playwrights Fund, the London Writers Centre, The Literary Consultancy, and a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award from Arts Council England. Elia is currently working towards their first novel.