Rosita Relámpago
Rosita Relámpago

Rosita Relámpago (Estado de México, 1994) studied at Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes of the Universidad de Colima.

 

If everything is formed from successive unfoldings and partitions, her works seem to say, the creation of an artistic object resides in the capture of gesture and form. She has developed a language that is at once intimate and abstract, visible and suggestive, which in each of her clay pieces represents the relationship between the spirit and the body. She currently lives in Oaxaca.

Andrea Bores
Andrea Bores

Andrea Bores (Mexico City, 1990) is a visual artist. She studied Mechanical Engineering and Administration at ITESM and then Textile and Fashion Design at CENTRO. Her practice is distinguished by the exploration of the possibilities of the pictorial canvas through textile interventions -dyeing, embroidery and weaving-, but also by the way she transforms the notion of landscape.

Bores looks for unpredictable, sometimes chaotic patterns and flows of nature to apprehend, in the space of the canvas, an instant of an indeterminate process. Her work has been exhibited in both national and international shows, and she has been selected for artist residencies of significant prestige. She lives in Mexico City, where she develops her research and artistic production.

Carlos Iván Hernández
Carlos Iván Hernández

Carlos Iván Hernández (Mexico City, 1984) studied Visual Arts and Graphic Design. He complemented his studies with the Contemporary Photography Program PFC Noroeste and with the SOMA educational program.

Some of his main interests are cultural phenomena that impact the creation or transformation of territory and the exploration of nature as a space of conflict. His work has been exhibited in multiple spaces inside and outside Mexico. He is co-founder of the TAJO workshop, together with Miguel Ángel Salazar. He is currently established in Mexico City.

Cosa Rapozo
Cosa Rapozo

Cosa Rapozo (Dolores Hidalgo, 1987) holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Guanajuato. Her work as a whole is distinguished by the multiplicity of disciplines that converge in her creative process, often inspired by everyday phenomena of globalized popular culture. She uses, for example, synthetic materials, display cases and assemblages of objects to concretize a critical stance towards the alienated reality inhabited by contemporary beings.

This combination of thought and materiality results in three-dimensional works that directly address themes such as shame, looting, archetypes, femininity, and “wild” nature. Her work questions the ways in which social agreements are materialized in the face of the untamable. She resides in Mexico City.

Mariana Paniagua
Mariana Paniagua

Mariana Paniagua Cortés (Mexico City, 1994) has a degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM, where she is currently studying for a master's degree.

Several of her works tend to emphasize the process of painting on canvas: how the superposition of layers creates surfaces, sediments and residues to create an object that returns a rarefied look. This is perhaps why the concepts of trial and error have such resonance in her work: the products of creative activity change with the evolution of their configurations. She resides in Mexico City.

Ismael Sentíes
Ismael Sentíes

Ismael Sentíes (Mexico City, 1992) studied at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” and later at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended workshops at The New York Academy of Art, Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Universidad CENTRO and the contemporary art laboratory Espositivo in Madrid.

In his work, composed of drawings and paintings, is recognizable an exploration of the dynamism of the landscape through opposing forces: the abstract and the figurative, the harmonious and the chaotic, the close and the distant. He seeks the living openness of metaphor: not the linear discourse of what has a fixed identity, but the language of what could be several things at once. His experience includes exhibitions in diverse regions and collaborations in internationally recognized artist residencies. In addition to his practice as a painter and draftsman, he has worked as an art manager and gallery owner. Founding partner and co-director of the artistic residence COBERTIZO, he is based in Mexico City.

Luis Figueroa
Luis Figueroa

Luis Figueroa (Caracas, 1993) holds a degree in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a master's degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

Through a rigorous exploration of color and composition, his pieces construct scenarios where figuration confronts its own materiality. Images from different registers of the Latin American colonial past-portraits, genre scenes, religious iconography and pictorial narrative structures are subjected to reconfiguration processes that generate tensions between representation, surface and volume. At this crossroads, the image is not fixed in a single form, but insists on its autonomy while revealing its capacity for mutation. He has participated in national and international exhibitions and has been selected for prestigious artist residencies abroad. He is based in Mexico City, where he develops his professional practice.

Marián Roma
Marián Roma

Marián Roma (Madrid, 2002) is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist who works both the creation and the intervention to materials, objects and spaces, trying to translate to the tangible what he understands as a system/lore, the most morphologically illegible part of the “cyberneocontemporary” ontological identity and intimacy.

He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Mexico City and Europe. He currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.

Miguel Ángel Salazar
Miguel Ángel Salazar

Miguel Ángel Salazar (Mexico City, 1988) has a degree in Communication Sciences from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus and graduated from the SOMA Educational Program.

His work derives from an almost archeological search of memories and digital archives. Through videos, objects and images, Salazar creates a bridge between the physical and the digital, exploring the possibility of an interaction between new and traditional processes. The reproduction of each object, he insinuates, is an opportunity to fragment digital and personal memory. His work has been exhibited in multiple spaces inside and outside Mexico. He is co-founder of the TAJO workshop, together with Carlos Iván Hernández. He resides in Mexico City.

Napoleón Aguilera
Napoleón Aguilera

Napoleón Aguilera (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1986) is a graduate of the ITESO School of Architecture. From the understanding of space and its structuring, he has ventured into the visual arts seeking to unite diverse materials, each with its corresponding craft. He has worked carving wood, forging metal through blacksmithing and modulating obsidian stones.

This impulse for different disciplines has led him, first, to challenge the limits of the usual methods of artistic production, and also to collaborate with other experts who bring original perspectives to his works. His oeuvre dynamically dialogues with subjects as varied as cockfighting, science fiction, fashion, criminal slang and rumors circulating on the web. He resides in Guadalajara.

Pablo Rubín
Pablo Rubín

Pablo Rubín (Monterrey, NL , 1997) studied Visual Arts at the Instituto Allende. Perhaps the most characteristic feature of the sum of his productions is an almost obsessive relationship, always projected on the canvas, with the materials he uses.

Whether through oil, acrylic, prismacolor or a mixture of these, the awareness of the effect of layers and time on the work determines the final image. This search for an ideal tone or texture for the form of the representation —bodies, animals, landscapes, chaos— is intuitive and sensorial because it is given to the revelations of the process. He currently lives in Mexico City and is co-founder of the consulting firm POLVO.

Sofía Ortiz
Sofía Ortiz

Sofía Ortiz (Mexico City, 1988) she studied Visual Arts at Yale University, where she also worked in the university’s painting restoration lab. Later, she completed a Master’s degree in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Part of her artistic work is the result of studying the crossovers between science and art, specifically the construction of the human in diverse natural environments. She also worked in the painting restoration lab at Yale University, where she received her undergraduate degree. Developed scientific illustration work at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. Her professional trajectory includes participation in artist residencies both in Mexico and internationally. She lives in Mexico City with her partner and a hyperactive dog.