City of Eternal Thirst
I’m an artist designer who started her practice doing product design and field research for the design Studio ONORA as the head of design and textile production. While in ONORA it was responsible for organizing and managing the exhibitions that we were invited to participate in, and also seeking other platforms to showcase the pieces we did in collaboration with craftsmen and craftswomen from all over Mexico. Before this, I did my Bachelor in Industrial Design at The Tecnologico de Monterrey and worked as an intern in Tezontle during their exhibition for LIGA 2021, where I participated as fabricator and during the installation process.
More recently I helped out with the coordination and organization of the receival and sent back pieces for House of Time, during Milan Design Week of 2025, where I also exhibited. I also worked as a member of the IPC within the Design Academy of Eindhoven during my Master’s, from which I graduated during June 2026 in the programme of Contextual Design.
I was born and raised in Mexico City, and later moved to the Netherlands for my Master’s in 2024. I seek to explore material forms as a way to reflect and challenge cultural narratives, but also explore it in such a way that feels personal. My work also responds to the need to address decay and collapse as material methodologies, using mediums such as ceramics, data design, mold and textile in spatial installations or the creation of digital archives.
Beyond material research and exploration, I use writing and research as an important part of how to develop my work. And consider writing an important aspect of my personal methodology and world building when creating.
The rubble left behind through the collapse of infrastructure and systems affected by the ongoing climate and social challenges creates a context that puts in tension the sense of security and belonging the being form a territory can provide.
The constant shift and pilling up of rubble and debris, akin to a perpetual ruin in formation, creates the cultural aesthetics for many cultures around the world. Initially, this project analyzed how water and its exile form the Valley Of Mexico, created the framework through which areas of exclusion and exploitation were formed within the city.
Water became a victim turned victimizer, and through its overwhelming absence and presence, the formation of sinkholes has created disruptions and clear visible collapse through Mexico City. But this is a symptom of a bigger malaise, that of corruption and gore capitalisms that prevail and flourish within a country always at the brink of collapse. The framework of this project utilized the works of Achille Mbembe, Sayak Valencia, Mabel Moraña, Gastón Gordillo, Ann Stoler and Veronica Gago to formulate a question around belonging, repair and collapse.
I began to work on this project because I felt frustrated with how Mexico City, my city, was overwhelmed with these issues, and with how this also affected and changed the aspect of belonging now that I live outside of the country.
To materially explore this project, I used clay because of how reactive it can be towards the absence or presence of water and developed a methodology of collapse. This project also includes a research text that furtehr expands on this idea of collapse and rubble, and how water shapes violence within Mexic City.
My main intent is to understand and create a form of repair that also understands and cares for the loss of belonging during times of collapse.