Open Call
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JAIME RUIZ OTIS
Alejandro Palomino
Mexico
Alejandro Palomino’s work examines contemporary regimes of visual production as mechanisms of control and perceptual organization. Through video installations, manipulated photography, and generative systems, his practice intervenes in the technical conditions that structure images, exposing the ideological filters that shape their circulation.
His works incorporate elements drawn from cinema, landscape, viral dance, architecture, and surveillance systems. By bringing these visual languages into dialogue, they challenge their conventional functions and reveal the underlying machinery that organizes the visible, directs attention, and conditions perceptual experience within contemporary image production.
A graduate of ENPEG “La Esmeralda”, Palomino has exhibited his work at venues including Salón ACME, Casa Maauad, the Centro Cultural de España, Galería Concreta (Chile), ACME Brooklyn (United States), and the Beijing International Film Festival (China). He has participated in artist residencies at the Cité du Design in Saint-Étienne (France) and Casa Wabi (Oaxaca, Mexico). His work has received support from the Jóvenes Creadores program (FONCA), the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo (PAC) Production Support Fund, and the Adidas Border Fellowship.
He received an Honorable Mention at the 10th FEMSA Biennial and the Artemergente Award. His work is included in collections such as those of the Museo Jumex and CONARTE. Since 2024, he has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SNCA). His practice also encompasses teaching, which he approaches as a space for exchange and critical reflection on the conditions and possibilities of artistic practice.
ANDREA BORES
Fashion designer graduated from CENTRO University
She explores the possibilities of the pictorial canvas through interventions characteristic of textile work, such as weaving, dyeing, and embroidery. Her current work explores the landscape as a dynamic phenomenon, where perspective collapses and nature reveals an unstable horizon, blurred by thermodynamic forces and turbulent structures.
JOSS OBSCURA
Visual artist specializing in soft sculpture and stop motion
Previously dedicated to advertising and art direction, she redirected her focus to bring to life the project La Maquila Erótica: an innovative initiative that intertwines sculpture, design, and performance. Her mission is to establish safe spaces that promote the playful and conscious exploration of sexuality through awareness and introspection.
ANDRÉS LIMA
Visual artist graduated from Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile
His works explore the relationships between architecture and politics in Latin America, examining notions of labor, language, and modernism, focusing on the complex relationship between image and discourse. In her research, she draws on archives, books, and architecture and construction magazines, extracting specific graphic elements and designs. His exploration of color and communication through these concrete forms is manifested in paintings and photographic experiments.
THE CRYPTIDS
Musicians
Bry Webb and Steph Yates. Webb has focused his work on rhythm, blending melodic elements beyond his molded and harmonizing vocals. His sound involves both improvised and composed rhythmic play, distortion, minimalism, polyrhythmic percussion and vocal work, drone, punk, post-punk, and experimental and found sound elements.
DANIEL ALCALÁ
Born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, in 1974. He lives and works in Madrid and Mexico City.
He studied at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking “La Esmeralda” (Mexico City, 2002–2007). He has held more than 20 solo exhibitions in countries such as the United States, Peru, Colombia, Germany, Spain, and Mexico. His work has been featured in group exhibitions in the United States, China, Spain, France, and Argentina. He has participated in artist residencies in the Mexican cities of Oaxaca, Tijuana, Guadalajara, Tapachula, Cholula, Saltillo, and Mexico City. In 2015, he completed residencies in Beijing, China, and Phoenix, Arizona, in the United States, and in 2021 and 2022 in Madrid, Spain.
He received the Purificación García Contemporary Latin American Photography Acquisition Prize in 2014. He was awarded the Young Creators Grant (2007–2008) and the National System of Art Creators Grant (2010–2013), (2017–2020), and (2022–2025).
MARTA IBARRONDO
Marta Ibarrondo’s work is deeply rooted in her fascination with libraries—repositories of collective memory and silent witnesses to the evolution of human thought. For Ibarrondo, books are not merely texts, but profound impressions on the psyche that shape identity and perception.
She approaches literature both as a conceptual foundation and a physical medium, incorporating paper, acrylic, and found objects into her practice. Her use of multiple layers of paint serves to both obscure and reveal, reinforcing the gravity of the texts with which she engages. This layering functions as both a visual and conceptual device, ensuring that the words stand out with the weight they deserve—resisting erasure and demanding to be seen.
With meticulous attention to typography, color, and texture, she explores how visual elements shape meaning, distilling the essence of texts into stratified compositions. In doing so, she transforms the act of reading into a tactile and immersive experience, inviting viewers to reconsider the power of written language in shaping history, memory, and identity.
Marta Ibarrondo studied Visual Communication and French Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. After spending three decades in New York working in advertising, visual arts, illustration, and film, she relocated to Miami in 2020, where she currently maintains her studio.
Carlos Cañadas
Carlos Cañadas’s pictorial practice is structured around images understood as spaces for vision and the cultivation of poetic modes of thought. He works with unstretched canvases in large and medium formats, applying layers of latex, house paint, acrylics, and handcrafted oils. His compositions—shaped by influences from Neo-Expressionism, bad painting, comics, and manga—revolve around characters that embody dynamics of power, contradiction, and companionship.
He is currently undertaking a series of artist residencies in Mexico at spaces such as El Room, Rondo, and Cobertizo. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Granada, where he researches the relationship between contemporary visual practices and magical and symbolic thought. Among his most recent solo exhibitions are Variaciones Dalton at the Palacio de la Madraza and The Searchers at the Palacio de los Condes de Gabia in Granada, among others.
He has participated in group exhibitions across various Spanish cities, including Jaén, Málaga, Almería, Mallorca, Cantabria, Valencia, and La Rioja, and has collaborated with galleries such as Renace and Fran Reus. He has also taken part in residencies such as Al Raso (Granada) and Celestino Cuevas (Cantabria). His work has been recognized with several Alonso Cano acquisition awards and with production grants awarded by the FACBA contemporary art festival, the Provincial Council of Granada, and the University of Granada.
VALENTINA LOLA MORALES
Valentina Lola Morales
A visual artist born in Santiago, Chile, she was raised in a family of painters, philosophers, and musicians. At the age of sixteen, she entered a special program for young artists at the University of Chile (Basic Stage of Visual Arts and ISUCH). Years later, she earned her degree in Sculpture from the same institution. Alongside her university studies, she expanded her creative practice through non-academic workshops in disciplines such as embroidery, musical performance, dance, and film. Her body of work typically integrates these fields, resulting in installation poems, ceramic–textile hybrids, and experimental films.
Her current work reflects on faith and on various ways of interpreting the divine within the mundane. She also participates in several collaborative projects, including Javiera Barrios’s Convergente Vocal choir and the experimental book initiative Lápida Publicaciones.
Her most recent exhibitions include the two-person show Estaciones de culto, presented with Francisca Álvarez (APECH, Santiago, Chile, June 2025), and her solo exhibition El dios de las discretas cosas (La Cochera, Santiago, Chile, May 2025). She has also taken part in the Epecuén XV Residency (Carhué, Argentina, 2024) and the Estudio Abierto Residency (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2024). In previous years, she has been recognized in various young artist competitions in Chile, including an Honorable Mention in the MAVI XV competition and First Place in the 2021 Young Art Competition of the Municipality of Santiago.
FERNANDA TELLEZ
Fernanda Téllez is a visual artist whose practice investigates flow patterns present in both the landscape and the human body. She establishes a dialogue between digital technologies and pictorial gesture, generating visualities that hybridize the organic and the artificial. Her work questions the binary dichotomy between nature and culture that has historically separated human beings from their environment.
A graduate in Architecture from Tecnológico de Monterrey (2023), her practice draws on territorial analysis tools such as global elevation maps and light maps that reveal water flows and urban traces. These digital layers are integrated with photographic records of the city and oil-based pictorial processes, articulating relationships between matter, body, and technology.
She has participated in group exhibitions such as Alteridades aprehendidas at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro (2024), Bruma at the Museum of the City of Querétaro (2025), and Serenidad para desconectar at Impulso Galería (Querétaro, 2024). That same year, she collaborated in the United Nations–organized World Habitat Day, creating a live painting at Palacio Conín in Querétaro. In 2025, she completed an artist residency at Lagos (Mexico City).
MARIA MÖLLER
Maria Möller is an interdisciplinary artist and photographer based in Philadelphia whose work distills narratives from lived events and examines how history and place can reflect our deepest longings and collective hopes. Her practice is collaborative, and she considers the process to be the most meaningful component of each project. Maria holds an MFA in Acting from Temple University and worked as an actor and director before transitioning into the visual arts.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries in the United States, Colombia, Iceland, and Mexico; however, she most frequently presents her projects in alternative spaces such as street corners, vacant lots, supermarkets, libraries, and motels. She has received support from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, the Leeway Foundation, and The Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Her residencies include Mural Arts Philadelphia, RAIR (Philadelphia), A Studio in the Woods (New Orleans), Arts Iceland (Ísafjörður), and Casa Lü (Mexico City).
During her residency at El Room, Maria continues developing Cartografía del riesgo. This project uses a 1905 map of the Historic Center—created by a U.S. cartography company to assess fire risk—as a starting point for an exploration of personal and public risk in the contemporary city.
ALISA MCRONALD
Alisa McRonald
Canada
Alisa McRonald is a contemporary textile artist based in Toronto, recognized for her distinctive approach to celebrating fairy tales, folklore, and queer identity through a lens that blends vintage, kitsch, and pop aesthetics. Her artistic practice is defined by the recovery and repurposing of materials, weaving narratives that challenge the boundaries between the domestic, the cultural, and the political.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at prominent venues, including Drey Gallery (2024), the Toronto Reference Library, the Prototype Exhibition at the Interior Design Show, and the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA) (2023), as well as Craft Ontario (2022) and Toronto's Drake Hotel (2021). Her work has also been featured in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Untitled Magazine, and the Toronto Star.
Among her honors are the Craft Ontario Rich Foundation Residency Award (2024), the Creative in Residence residency from Ontario Culture Days (2023), the Best Product/Design Award presented by DesignTO (2023), and the Best of Craft and Design Award from the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (2020). Her work has also been included in numerous curated selections and lists.
McRonald has a deep appreciation for handmade objects—such as quilts and crocheted blankets—which she rescues from thrift stores and community sales. To her, these pieces embody countless hours of craftsmanship and care. Committed to a sustainable practice, she works almost exclusively with reclaimed textiles and has now reached nearly 100% recycled materials in her artistic production.
DENIZ YURTBAY
Deniz Yurtbay
Turkey
Artist Statement:
I am a visual artist from Istanbul. I merge painting with textiles to explore intersections of gender, culture, and identity. Through abstraction, I construct narratives that challenge patriarchy and amplify women’s voices against censorship. By integrating embroidery, lace, and handwork with oil painting, a medium historically dominated by men, I disrupt hierarchies of art and gender, reclaiming domestic crafts as artistic expression.
My family’s migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Turkey and my life between Mexico City and Istanbul shape my reflections on belonging. Satire, play, and collaboration weave my practice into poetic acts of solidarity and resistance.
DANIEL GUANA
Daniel Guana
Colombia
Artist Statement:
My artistic practice explores the human need and the actions undertaken to preserve, expand, and (re)affirm existence in the world, and how these concerns are intertwined with the phenomenon of pain.
It is within this framework that I observe and question humanity’s inherent and intense obsession with perpetuating life, regardless of whether doing so means denying, suspending, or disregarding the existence of others and their environment; using power and desire to transform territories in order to secure one’s legacy and permanence, while driving their relentless expansion.
The bodies in constant tension, the vast expanses of skin, and the powerful voices that inhabit my work are staged through poetic actions and metaphors expressed in drawing, sculptural installation, and video performance.
SANDRA DINENNDAHL LÓPEZ
Sandra Dinnendahl López
Paraguay
Sandra Dinnendahl López (Esedele) is an artist, researcher, and cultural manager based in Asunción. In 2010, she earned a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and Creative Writing from Oberlin College (United States). In 2015, she completed a master's degree in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany).
Since returning to Paraguay in 2016, she has launched several cultural projects and platforms in collaboration with local and regional artists, including Temporal Art Festival, Confluencias Art Festival, Proyecto Enajenar / En Casa Ajena, Red Gris, Las Aguadas Art Residency, and Floating Residency: The Deixis of the River.
In 2019, she was awarded the International Research Fellowship by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (South Korea). In 2020, she represented Paraguay in Continuo Latidoamericano de Performance: Cartografías en Contexto. In 2021, she was appointed Visual Arts Advisor to Paraguay's National Council for Culture (CONCULTURA).
In 2022, she served as a member of the curatorial teams for JustMAD (Spain) and Equinox Art Fair (Argentina), and received the Francis Greenburger Fellowship for Mitigating Ethnic and Religious Conflict to participate in the Art Omi residency (New York, USA). She has also participated in the FlussLab Onsite: Delta residency (Tigre, Argentina), ZAI (Madrid, Spain), and ArteCo (Corrientes, Argentina)
ALEJANDRO PALOMINO
Alejandro Palomino
Mexico
Alejandro Palomino’s work examines contemporary regimes of visual production as mechanisms of control and perceptual organization. Through video installations, manipulated photography, and generative systems, his practice intervenes in the technical conditions that structure images, exposing the ideological filters that shape their circulation.
His works incorporate elements drawn from cinema, landscape, viral dance, architecture, and surveillance systems. By bringing these visual languages into dialogue, they challenge their conventional functions and reveal the underlying machinery that organizes the visible, directs attention, and conditions perceptual experience within contemporary image production.
A graduate of ENPEG “La Esmeralda”, Palomino has exhibited his work at venues including Salón ACME, Casa Maauad, the Centro Cultural de España, Galería Concreta (Chile), ACME Brooklyn (United States), and the Beijing International Film Festival (China). He has participated in artist residencies at the Cité du Design in Saint-Étienne (France) and Casa Wabi (Oaxaca, Mexico). His work has received support from the Jóvenes Creadores program (FONCA), the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo (PAC) Production Support Fund, and the Adidas Border Fellowship.
He received an Honorable Mention at the 10th FEMSA Biennial and the Artemergente Award. His work is included in collections such as those of the Museo Jumex and CONARTE. Since 2024, he has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SNCA). His practice also encompasses teaching, which he approaches as a space for exchange and critical reflection on the conditions and possibilities of artistic practice.
