Maximiliano Rosiles

Maximiliano Rosiles is an interdisciplinary visual artist, born in Guanajuato, Mexico. At a young age his family suffered a separation which resulted in him crossing the U.S-Mexico border and migrating to Harlingen, Texas with his mother. He spent his formative years going back and forth constantly between the border towns of South Texas and Guanajuato, Mexico.

His art practice is an attempt to reconnect to his Mexican heritage while considering the intricacies embedded in the cultural hybridity of his non-aligned identity. This syncretism lies in the middle of a liminal space immersed by a transcultural exchange between the U.S. and Mexico. He uses sculpture, installation, performance, and time-based works to record his cultural investigation and nurture a connection to his heritage that was disrupted through his migration experience while dissecting his identities in an attempt to undergo a process he likes to call “reverse assimilation”. This has manifested in cultural stories, personal accounts, and social commentary on issues that he has witnessed, experienced, or has come across through research. The stories and subjects that he captures are often those that are overlooked or undervalued, or those that are not talked about, therefore living in the peripherals of society. He reaches for narratives that are in the collective unconscious of the Mexican-American experience. Themes often found in his work include immigration, acculturation, displacement, Nepantla, violence, family, religion, and cultural tradition.

— Guadalajara90210