Procesos desde y hacia los bosques

Lateral invites you to its conversation within the framework of the exhibition by José Luis Arroyo-Robles, which brings together three artistic processes that start from the forested landscape of Michoacán as a territory of origin and research. Through printmaking, drawing, and photography, the practices explore the forest as a material and relational space, establishing intersections with fields such as history, biology, and geography, while understanding contemporary art as a place to produce situated knowledge and reflect on ways of inhabiting and transforming the territory.

Ámbar Azaena (Senguio, Michoacán, 1996) is a visual artist whose practice develops from an animist perspective, blending analog and digital formats. Her work has taken place mainly in Michoacán, where the territory influences the configuration of her processes and images. She has participated in exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Clavijero and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce, and is currently pursuing a master's degree in MaPA, exploring relationships between landscape and territory.

Salvador Xharicata (Cherán, Michoacán, 1996). His artistic practice explores language as an unstable material crossed by translations, displacements, and bodily memories. He investigates the tensions of mestizaje and the interrupted transmission of language, recognizing in inherited gestures and material remains the possibilities for imagining other forms of belonging. He has been a commissioned artist at the XV FEMSA Biennial (2024), a recipient of a PECDA Michoacán grant (2023), and received the Acquisition Award at the XLI National Encounter of Young Art (2021). In 2025, he was a beneficiary of the Cobertizo Grant.

—Lateral