Title of the lecture:

If you want to know what you read, draw it. If you want to know what you look at, write it down.

Make pillows, exercise, collect scrap metal. There seems to be a direct way to get closer to understanding something, and I'm not saying there isn't, but there are certainly a myriad of indirect paths and these are the ones that intrigue. Or rather, these are the ones that open up to me when I try to understand something. A story by Julio Cortázar or Leonora Carrington for example, or one that I have written myself, I don't even know how. Until I draw it. Until the translation from literary to visual code unveils part of that mystery. A glimpse of the secret. It was just in this way (making pillows, exercising and collecting scrap metal) that the book ‘The geometry of stories’ was born, a compilation of infographics that try to reveal why certain stories fascinate us through arrows, areas, tones, relationships. What color is infinity? How do two planes of reality connect? What skin does rage wear? Each story raises different questions to be solved by means of graphic tools. It is not about drawing the stories. It is about understanding them. “Depth must be hidden, where, on the surface,” said the writer Hofmannsthal. That's where we are going.

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Isabel González grew up in a petrol station.  

Infographer, writer and scrap metal collector, she draws with a computer, writes with a pencil and collects objects from containers.

She has published ‘La geometría de los cuentos’, a book that uses graphic tools to analyse why certain narratives fascinate us, the volumes of short stories ‘Nos queda lo mejor’ and ‘Casi tan salvaje’, the novel ‘Mil mamíferos ciegos’ and explored the avenues of collective writing. He has exhibited plastic works and installations, and travelled through empty Spain in search of that matter that roots us and gives meaning to our senses. With ‘El silencio bordado’ he took part in the Museo de Teruel's tribute to La sábana de Regina, a sheet that was only half embroidered because the young woman who made it was shot.

As an infographer, she has been recognised by the SND and has worked for Heraldo de Aragón, Diario de Noticias and El Mundo.  As a writer, she was selected among the most representative authors of current short stories.  She has participated in ‘Letraheridas. Mujeres que agitan el panorama editorial', in the “Oh Poetry Fest” and in the “Silvestris Festival” of poetry for various media. Sporadic writing teacher.