Portafolios presentation with Gina Santos and Miranda Varo

Lagos invites you to the portfolio presentation of artists Gina Santos and Miranda Varo. Live stream on IG @lagosmx.

Gina Santos’s textile work unfolds as a multiple, liminal space where fiber ceases to be a simple material and becomes instead a threshold of political and spiritual resistance. Within her weavings, a decolonial identity intertwines with a feminism deeply rooted in the defense of territory, understanding the body and the land as a single geographic and emotional unit that must be protected from extractivism. Through a conceptual approach that moves away from academic coldness to embrace the sensibility of matter, Santos revives herbal traditions not only as a dyeing technique but as an ancestral system of knowledge that imbues each piece with a healing dimension. In this way, the act of spinning becomes a cartography of threads in which the memory of plants and social protest converge to challenge hegemonic narratives.

Miranda Varo, an artist from Baja California, transforms painting and sculpture into tools of critical dissection to explore the complex intersections between inhabited territory and gender identity. With an affable personality and that fantastically northern directness, Varo moves away from romantic nostalgia to deconstruct, from a contemporary perspective, the pillars of family heritage in northwestern Mexico. Her work interrogates the stereotypes rooted in agricultural labor, cowboy iconography, the violence of narco-culture, and the dynamics of soccer, questioning how these spaces—historically dominated by masculinity—shape both psyche and social behavior. By intervening in these narratives through a feminist aesthetic that balances the rugged with the reflective, she allows material itself to speak about the vulnerability and power embedded in everyday life. Her work not only documents the border and agricultural landscape of her native Mexicali but inhabits it anew, proposing a reconfiguration of cachanilla roots through a lens that is sensitive, honest, and deeply subversive.

— Lagos