BiographyJOSÉ HERRERA1995. Puebla, MéxicoJosé studied Architecture at UNAM and participated in the 2024 Photographic Production Seminar at the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City). His work has been exhibited in Japan, the United States, Bolivia, and Mexico. He is part of the Plataforma de Imágenes Contemporáneas (PICS) and has taken part in residencies such as Estancia I (Mirador Tlatelolco), Radio 28 (Mexico City), and The Lab Program (Mexico City).

He is interested in languages that emerge from play, error, theft, and desire. He approaches the sculptural, the pedagogical, and the editorial not as ends in themselves, but as tools to foster encounters. His practice is rooted in theft and play as working strategies: he steals images, phrases, incomplete archives; plays with remnants, modifies documents, and invents new ways of reading what is already there. He does not seek to preserve, but to intervene.

For him, stealing is not a violent act, but a form of attention. To steal because the archive is already a theft. To play as a form of learning and testing. To insist on what is usually left out. He is currently researching minor forms of sabotage and archiving within a visual practice that traverses themes of labor, urban landscape, and memory.

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