Erik Tlaseca

Erik Bernado Tlaseca Gaona (Mexico, CDMX, 1989) Interdisciplinary visual artist. His work addresses themes that arise from unattainable memories and images that touch on territorial transformations and changes in identity. He studied Plastic and Visual Arts at the ENPEG "La Esmeralda". In 2017 he was part of the Photographic Production Seminar of Centro de la Imagen. In 2014-2015 and 2018-2019 he was the recipient of the FONCA Young Creators scholarship and between 2019 and 2020 he was part of the BBVA - MACG grant program. He has done artistic residency programs at Motel Spatie, Holland, at WRO Art Center, Poland, and at KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Indonesia, as well as participated in various group exhibitions, including the Jakarta Biennial in Indonesia. He is a founding member of the Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Zungale, Taller de Producción Editorial. ...

LLANO is a Mexican platform focused on artists whose production is the result of long-term research. Their body of work is often related to science, history, technology as well as forgotten wisdom and unforeseen communities. LLANO highlights thought processes and thorough research, creating crosspoints and strong bonds with the work from an immersive standpoint. It aims to take the spectator beyond traditional exhibition formats and deeper into the original source of the work. LLANO is an all-around project where exhibition space evolves into many shapes: from an open field in the top of a former textile factory in Mexico City to volcanos, jungles, deserts, oceans, mountains, as well as urban landscapes and historical landmarks. The diverse projects it presents begin as expeditions that go directly into the context that sourced inspiration and information for the artist and are the natural niches to where the work belongs. LLANO’s intention is to build bridges between the spectator and the profound reasons that hold artworks together, in order to experiment art from a new and different standpoint, both literally and symbolically. ...