Félix Mirel
 
Felix Mirel is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Monterrey, Mexico. His work spans various media, primarily analog photography, sculpture, painting, video, poetry, and installation.
 
His practice explores memory, desire, and the invisible wounds that shape human experience. Rooted in lived experiences of loss, trauma, labor, migration, and the body, he approaches making as a way to understand how chaos lives within us and how it can be shaped into creation.
 
He works with time and transformation through materials that erode, burn, stain, tear, or fade. Through photographic processes and surface interventions, he treats the image as something alive—something that can be wounded, disturbed, and reconfigured.
 
His imagery often merges sacred and profane symbols, questioning how belief and loss can inhabit the same space. He is interested in how trauma distorts memory and reality, and how the body becomes a container for experiences that cannot always be articulated. For him, the body remains a site of chaos—of desire, vulnerability, and transformation.
 
In this work, I explore my connection to the memories and traditions I grew up with. Each piece in the installation carries its own emotional weight. The rural setting and heavy materials speak to an attachment to experiences that I continue to carry with me, even as time moves forward.
 
Through the imagery and materials, I think about how the things I once knew will eventually change, disappear, or become distorted. The traditions I grew up with will continue to shift as the years pass, leaving behind mostly sensory memories—smells, sounds, images, objects, and feelings that keep them alive within me.
 
Since I have chosen not to return to my hometown, I know that with time I will become a stranger there. My presence, and the life I once lived there, will slowly fade. This makes me question how I can pass these memories and traditions on to those who come after me. How will my children understand or experience something they never lived themselves?
 
“Que bonita es mi tierra”, 2026
Mixed-media installation with video and sound
Wet cyanotype print toned in beer, cyanotype, personal objects.