Carlos Amorales (MX, 1970)
Residency period: September 2025
Carlos Amorales is a Mexican artist based in Mexico City whose work explores the boundaries of language and communication through non-codified means such as sounds, gestures, and symbols. Moving between animation, film, drawing, installation, performance, and sound, he experiments with translation systems in which instruments become characters, letters turn into shapes, and narratives unfold through non-verbal actions. Central to this practice is Liquid Archive, a visual language of abstract forms initiated in 1998 and expanded over more than a decade, alongside other alphabets and systems that reconfigure how texts are read and understood.
Carlos Amorales studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and has held residencies at Atelier Calder in Saché, MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MUAC in Mexico City, and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, and featured in biennials such as Venice, Berlin, Shanghai, Sharjah, Havana, and Seoul.
Hosted in the spaces of La Becque, Carlos Amorales’s residency is initiated by Images Vevey and made possible with the support of Nestlé.