beyond being

Momento is pleased to present “BeyondBeing”, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Jonlouis Gonzalez, on view September 4–7, 2025, marking his debut at Art on Paper, New York.

With these eight new paintings, the artist turns his focus inward, reflecting on intuition, synergy, and earthbound frequencies. The title “Beyond Being” refers to our instinctive connection with our surroundings and our ability to receive and interpret signs from both the physical environment and beyond.

Through his intuitive use of watercolor and free-flowing techniques, Gonzalez creates soft, dreamlike scenes that transport the viewer to unexplored worlds, spaces filled with both wonder and familiarity. Created in bold oil-stick strokes the cacti symbolize endurance, protection, and survival. His landscapes, rendered with mindful color palettes, are painted on small-batch handmade papers such as Amate and Arches, crafted by generational studios in Mexico and France. Introducing a tangible ancestral tradition into the body of work.

Within these ethereal works, Gonzalez embeds his “Astro figures” resembling the duality of human existence as both earthly and divine, fragile yet resilient. In the flourishing cacti, running rivers, and stillness of nature, rays of sunlight embrace their bodies. Softly transmitting answers, clues, confirmations, and guidance from the universe. With a gaze to the sky, the astro figures seem to offer a path of communication, inviting us to tune in:

To listen closely.
To trust the signs.
To answer back.