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The creation of an in-vitro cloud is, undoubtedly, an artificial sublimation act, as it implies the transition from one specific state to another. The electronic transformation of the sound of a gunshot into a meteorologic event is, on the other hand, a simulation that restricts access to violent memories. The conjunction of both events in a single exhibition space is presented as a ‘symptom’ — i.e. a phenomenon that depicts the expression of that which has been repressed, but nevertheless returns.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Jorge Ballina

* 1968, Mexico City
Specialization: theatre director, set designer, lighting designer, scenographer
Education: Bachelor‘s degree in Architecture, Universidad Ibero-Americana (1987-1990); course in Set Design for opera and musical theatre, St. Martins College of Art and Design (1991); course in theatre set design and lighting with Alejandro Luna (1994)
Collaboration with theatres: Palacio de Bellas Artes; Teatros del Centro Cultural del Bosque; Teatro UNAM; Teatro Centro Cultural Helénico; Centro Cultural Telmex; Teatro de los Insurgentes. He works with the main theatre, dance and opera companies of Mexico, including the National Companies of Theatre and Opera.
Teaching activities: Teacher of set design. Universidad Iberoamericana (1991-2002), various set design courses and workshops (2004-2015)
Participation in other important exhibitions: World Stage Design 2005, Toronto
Continuing collaboration with directors: Mauricio García Lozano, Francisco Franco, Martín Acosta, Enrique Singer, José Caballero, Carlos Corona,Sergio Vela, Alicia Sánchez, Boris Schoemann.
Awards: Gold Medal in Set Design (World Stage Design Toronto 2005)
Additional information: He is an opera, dance and theatre set designer. The main feature of his visual concept is the creation of spaces in constant transformation according to dramatic action. Member of the National System of Creators of Art. www.jorgeballina.com
• Jerildy Bosch

* 1975, Mexico City
Specialization: costume designer
Education: Self-instructed in costume design.
Collaboration with theatres: Constantly active in the leading theatres of Mexico.
Continuing collaboration with directors: She works with theatre and opera directors of her generation.
Additional information: Costume designer for more than 80 productions, including opera, theatre and dance. She is currently part of the National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and Arts.
• Gloria Carrasco

* 1962, Oaxaca, México
Specialization: set designer, scenographer, Art director
Education: Set design, Centro Universitario de Teatro CUT-UNAM; Sculpture, UABJO (Oaxaca) and Autonomous University of Barcelona; Restoration, CNCOA, INBA; profesional practice, Stuttgart, Germany.
Collaboration with theatres: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Teatro Julio Castillo, Sala Covarrubias, Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Teatro Sta. Catarina, Foro del CUT, Caja Negra del CUT, Teatro Helénico, Teatro de las Artes, Teatro de la Paz, Teatro El Granero, Foro Scotian Bank, Teatro de la Casa del Lago
Teaching activities: CCC (Cinematography Training Center)
Participation in other important exhibitions: World Stage Design, Cardiff 2013
Continuing collaboration with directors: Mario Espinosa, Carlos Carrera, Ignacio Ortiz-Cruz.
Awards: FIPRESCI Prize, International Critics' Prize. Festival des Films du Monde - Montreal and Press Award in Guadalajara International Film Festival 2014 for 'OPEN CAGE (los Bañistas)', a film produced and designed by Gloria Carrasco
Additional information: Gloría Carrasco is a set and costume designer for theatre, opera, cinema and television. She was a founding member of the CORNAMUSA theatre collective, her seminal work. She designed 'Unicamente La Verdad', which was performed in Mexico and the USA.
• Xochitl González

* 1967, México D.F.
Specialization: set designer, lighting designer
Education: Bachelor's degree in History from UNAM, Mexico; scenic machinery, Barcelona Theatre Institute, Spain. Set design courses with Alejandro Luna and Arturo Nava.
Collaboration with theatres: El Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Teatro Juárez, Guanajuato; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Café de la Danse, Paris; La Casa del Teatro Nacional, Bogota; Teatro Nacional, Panama; Shanghai Grand Theatre, China; Kennedy Center, Washington DC; Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami; Sala Central Lechera; Cádiz/Spain.
Teaching activities: González teaches stage machinery, set and lighting design at state cultural institutes, art schools, universities, and cultural centers.
Participation in other important exhibitions: World Stage Design 2013, Cardiff, UK.
Continuing collaboration with directors: Francisco Franco, Tania Pérez Salas, Antonio Castro, Raúl Parrao, Oscar Ruvalcaba and Jesús Coronado.
Awards: World Stage Design Lighting Award, Cardiff 2013
Additional information: Set and lighting designer for theatre, dance, musicals and opera. World Stage Design 2013 Lighting Award, Cardiff (UK). In 2014 she published 'Manual Práctico de Diseño Escenográfico (Practical Manual for Set Design)'.
• Mario Marín del Río (Mario Marin del Rio)

* 1974, Mexico City
Specialization: set designer, costume designer, scenographer
Education: Bachelor's degree in Set Design at the National School of Theatrical Art, INBA
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Foro Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Teatro Julio Castillo, Teatro El Granero, Teatro Jiménez Rueda, Teatro El Milagro, Teatro Benito Juárez, Foro la Gruta.
Continuing collaboration with directors: Mauricio García Lozano, Enrique Singer, Richard Viqueira, David Gaitán and Martín Acosta
Additional information: He has received a fellowship from the 'Young creators' program of the National Fund for Culture and Arts (2009-2010). He won the award for Best Clothes Design at the Festival Nacional de Teatro.
• Alain Kerriou

* 1964, México City
Specialization: director, actor, theatre director, teacher, set designer, lighting designer, media artist, scenographer, visual artist
Education: New comedy workshop directed by Hugo Hiriart; studied acting refinement and stage management with Ludwig Margules and scenic design with Alejandro Luna; studied philosophy at UNAM; self-taught visual artist
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), Teatro Julio Castillo (Mexico City), Teatro El Galeón (Mexico City), Sala Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico City), CUT (Mexico City), Teatro Santa Catarina (Mexico City), Teatro Centro Cultural Helénico (Mexico City), Foro de las Artes (Mexico City), Teatro Juárez (Guanajuato), Alhondiga de Granaditas (Guanajuato), Teatro Cervantes (Guanajuato), Teatro Experimental de Jalisco (Guadalajara), Teatro de la Paz (San Luis Potosí), Teatro del CECUT (Tijuana), NOD (Prague, Czech Republic), Comedia Municipal del Centro Cultural Pasaje Dardo Rocha (La Plata, Argentina)
Teaching activities: San Luis Potosi Centre of the Arts: interdisciplinary art laboratory, performing arts
Continuing collaboration with directors: Hugo Hiriart, José Luis Cruz, Benjamín Cann, Alicia Sánchez, Luis Martín Solís, Rubén Ortíz, Gerardo Trejoluna, Israel Cortes, Gabriel Figueroa Pacheco, David Psalmon
Additional information: He is a member of the National System of Creators of Art of the National Fund for Culture and Arts. He has designed sets for more than 40 projects and multimedia elements for theatre and dance shows, as well as managing visual study labs.
• Philippe Amand

* 1965, La Habana, Cuba
Specialization: architect, set designer, lighting designer
Education: Set and Lighting Design in Drama at the Núcleo de Estudios Teatrales, Mexico City
Collaboration with theatres: National Company of Theatre of México, Teatro UNAM and Theatres of the National Institute of Fine Arts of México. INBA
Teaching activities: Scenography: San Carlos Academy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Participation in other important exhibitions: World Stage Design, Toronto 2005
Continuing collaboration with directors: Luis de Tavira, Martín Acosta, Mario Espinosa, Corrado Rovaris,Robert Driver, Enrique Singer.
Awards: Gold Medal for Best Lighting Designer, World Stage Design Toronto 2005
Additional information: Amand studied stage and lighting design under Alejandro Luna, and directing under Ludwik Margules and Julio Castillo in the Nucleo de estudios teatrales school in Mexico City. He created the main set and lighting designs for the National Theatre. In 2000 the National Council of Culture granted him the distinction of National Creator of Art. He is a Member of the National System of Creators of Art. Website: homepage.mac.com/pamand/
• Aris Pretelin Estéves

* 1982, Mexico City
Specialization: producer, set designer, costume designer, lighting designer, scenographer, visual artist, Scenic Painting
Education: Bachelor\'s degree in Set Design from the National School of Theatrical Art
Collaboration with theatres: Centro Cultural Helénico, independant theatres, on the streets and alternative spaces.
Teaching activities: College Professor at the School of Drama, Literature and Theatre (UNAM)
Continuing collaboration with directors: Mauricio Jiménez and Alberto Lomnitz.
Additional information: A set designer since 2008, Estéves is the founder and co-director of the independent group White Wall (Pared Blanca). She is deeply interested in developing collective work.
• Mónica Raya (Monica Raya)

* 1965, Mexico City
Specialization: architect, director, producer, theatre theoretician, teacher, set designer, costume designer, lighting designer, scenographer, curator, jury
Education: PhD in Arts
Collaboration with theatres: J. F. K. Center of Arts, Gala Hispanic Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, International Cervantino Festival. She has been the artistic director of Theatre at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2004-2010).
Teaching activities: Full-time professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Participation in other important exhibitions: Costume at the End of the Century, Moscow 2015
Continuing collaboration with directors: Johan Kresnik, Ludwik Margules, Sergio Vela, Miguel Angel Gaspar, Antonio Castro
Awards: Gold Medal in Costume Design, World Stage Design, Toronto 2005. Outstanding Scenographer Gold Medal World Stage Design, Seoul 2009.
Additional information: She has designed more than 120 productions. She won the Gold Medal for Costume Design at the WSD 2005 and for Outstanding Scenographer at the WSD 2009. www.monicaraya.com
• Edyta Rzewuska

* 1968, Gdansk, Poland
Specialization: teacher, set designer, costume designer, scenographer
Education: École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Caen/France; diploma from L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris/France (specialization in stage design)
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro Helénico, Teatro de la Ciudad, Teatro El Milagro, Teatro el Galeón, Sala Villaurrutia, Teatro Orientación, Teatro Julio Castillo, El Foro Shakespeare, Teatro Jiménez Rueda, Foro Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Telón de Asfalto, Teatro de las Artes CENART, Sala Covarrubias UNAM, Auditorio Nacional
Teaching activities: Escuela de Literatura Dramática y Teatro (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM)
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2009 World Stage Design, Seoul/South Korea
Continuing collaboration with directors: Carlos Corona,Ewa Piotrowska, Juliana Faesler, Daniel Giménez-Cacho,Lorena Maz,Berta Hiriart,Luis de Tavira,Sandra Félix,David Psalman,Alberto Lomnitz,Perla Szuchmacher,David Olguón,Jorge Arturo Vargas,Roberto Dion,Gervais Gaudreault,Raúl Quintanilla.
Awards: Silver medal of costume design WSD2009,Seoul, Korea
Additional information: She has worked as a set and costume designer in Mexico since 1995. She is a member of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA).
• Ricardo Loyola (Ricardo Loyola Mejia)

* 1987, Mexico City
Specialization: director, costume designer
Education: Bachelor's degree in Dramatic Literature and Theatre, UNAM
Collaboration with theatres: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Teatro Julio Prieto, Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Foro Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Teatro Julio Castillo, Teatro Carlos Lazo and Teatro Ignacio López Tarso
Teaching activities: Theatre workshops at the Integral Institute for People with Special Educational Needs AC
Continuing collaboration with directors: Martín Acosta, David Gaitán, Moritz Riesewieck, Diego Alvarez Robledo, Kayla Adams, Luis Lance, Abilio Tavares, Juan Alberto Alejos, Irinia Gonzalez, Antonio Castro and Ángel Rubio.
Additional information: He has designed costumes for more than a dozen plays with leading directors and won the Lech Hellwing Górzyński Award for Theatre Stage Creation in 2009 and 2012. He has also directed several plays involving actors with autism and Down Syndrome.
• Ángel Hernández (Angel Hernandez)

* 1980, Tampico, Tamaulipas
Specialization: set designer, visual artist
Education: Bacherlor's degree in Communication, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas
Teaching activities: Courses in Theatre Direction, Autonomous University of Nuevo León
Participation in other important exhibitions: Never Vietnam, Vietman 2013, Haiku of the Collapse, Japan 2015, Opium Brides, Afganistan 2015
Awards: Altair Tejeda National Playwright Award, 2011 and Victor Hugo Rascon Banda Award, 2013
Additional information: He founded the Theatre for the End of the World as an ongoing program of the intervention and occupation of spaces within cities in Mexico and Latin America that are marked by violence and destined for ruin and abandonment.
• Tenzing Ortega

* 1983, Mexico City
Specialization: set designer, lighting designer
Education: Set Design Bachelor Degree at the National School of Theatrical Art
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro El Galeón, Teatro Salvador Novo and Sala Villaurrutia, INBA
Teaching activities: Set Designer professor at the National School of Theatrical Art INBA
Continuing collaboration with directors: Martín Acosta, David Gaitán, Emmanuel Márquez and David Jiménez
Additional information: He has worked on more than 60 plays. The National fund for Culture and Arts granted him the fellowship for Young Creators.
• Gloria Carrasco y Xóchitl González (Gloria Carrasco,  Xóchitl González)

* 1962/1967, Mexico
Specialization: art manager, set designer, costume designer, lighting designer, scenographer
Participation in other important exhibitions: World Stage Design, Cardiff 2013
Additional information: With water in mind, and especially for 'Public Spaces' for PQ 2015, Gloria Carrasco and Xóchitl González worked together to design a 'trajinera', an ancient Mexican boat, to tell the history of the dry lakes of the capital city of Mexico.

Exhibiting works

• Gloria Carrasco and Xóchitl González: La trajinera. A-lusión del agua. (The trajinera. Delusion of water.), Gloria Carrasco a Xóchitl González 2015 ; Identification of exhibit: others ;
  Comments: On a "trajinera", a boat used in ancient Mexican lakes, travelers will enjoy the Vltava River while they see a documentary which explains that Mexico City is set in an almost dead lake system because a long string of political catastrophic decisions and the inability to coexist with our environment.
• Atenea Chávez, Auda Caraza (Atenea Chavez,  Auda Caraza)

* 1976/1979, Mexico City
Specialization: set designer, scenographer
Education: Bachelor's degree in Set Design, National School of Theatrical Art, INBA
Collaboration with theatres: Palacio de Bellas Artes and Centro Cultural del Bosque (INBA), Teatro UNAM,  Centro Cultural Helénico, National Company of Theatre, Teatro la Capilla, Sistema de Teatros of GDF, among others.
Teaching activities: Introductory workshop for Set Design (Atenea Chavez)
Participation in other important exhibitions: World Stage Design, Cardiff 2013
Continuing collaboration with directors: Hugo Arrevillaga, Enrique Singer, Martín Acosta, Mauricio Jiménez, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Claudia Ríos, Carlos Corona, Ignacio Ortiz, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Diego del Río, Rodolfo Guerrero, Héctor Bonilla, Lorena Maza, Aurora Cano and Marion Potts
Additional information: Auda and Atenea have collaborated on set designs for over 80 theatrical productions. They were grant holders of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts under the Young Artist program. Atenea is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators.
• Teatro Ojo Karla Rodríguez and Hector Bourges (Teatro Ojo Karla Rodriguez and Hector Bourges)

* 2002, Mexico City
Education: Political Sciences, Architecture, Mathematics, Sociology, Cinematography and Theatrical Art.
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro El Galeón, Auditorio Index MUAC, La Gruta, Teatro Antonio López Mancera (among others); different public spaces and museums.
Teaching activities: Workshops and theatre labs
Participation in other important exhibitions: 'Playgrounds' (Museo Reina Sofía, Spain); 'The Contract' (Alhóndiga Bilbao, Spain); '7/14' (Centro Cultural Universitario Tlateloco, Mexico)
Awards: Best Work in Theatre Architecture and Performance Space, 2011
Additional information: Teatro Ojo is an artistic group founded in 2002. Its works have moved from theatrical territories to the so-called 'expanded stage'. They have worked in countries such as Mexico, Spain, Greece, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Switzerland, Colombia and India.
• Damian Cervantes

* 1981, Mexico City
Specialization: director, actor, teacher
Education: Bachelor's degree in Theatre
Collaboration with theatres: Independent spaces
Teaching activities: University Theatre Center, Casa del Teatro and workshops in Barcelona, San Sebastián and Madrid, Spain
Awards: Villanueva Award (Theatre Journalist Association of Cuba)
Additional information: His works involve a search for meaning in collective work. Deep interest in honesty in acting. He works in alternative and independent spaces, developing powerful scenic languages. Artistic director of 'Vaca 35 Teatro en Grupo'.
• Julia Reyes Retana C.

* 1980, Mexico City
Specialization: set designer, costume designer, lighting designer
Education: Bachelor's degree in Architecture. Art courses and serigraphy, electronics and interactive textiles workshops.
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro El Galeón INBA, Teatro Helénico and Teatro El Milagro
Teaching activities: Textile illustration workshops at the Textile Museum of Oaxaca.
Continuing collaboration with directors: Alberto Villarreal and Martín Acosta
Additional information: Since 2004 she has worked with different directors in theatres in Mexico and the rest of the world, and has also worked in textile design.
• Iker Vicente

* 1975, Mexico City
Specialization: sculptor, puppet designer, visual artist
Education: Bachelor's degree in Plastic Arts, INBA.
Collaboration with theatres: Theatres of the National Institute of Fine Arts.
Teaching activities: Workshops in various cities in Mexico
Continuing collaboration with directors: Jacqueline Serafín, Jesús Díaz, Jorge Vargas, Emmanuel Márquez, among others.
Additional information: His work focuses on movement, materiality, rustic technologies and humor in everyday buildings, artifacts and unconventional theatrical puppets. His work has been displayed in museums, galleries, theatres and public spaces in several countries.
• Jorge Verdin, uměleckým jménem Clorofila (Jorge Verdin-Clorofila)

* 1965, Teocaltiche, Jalisco
Specialization: sound artist, graphics designer, art director
Education: Art Center College of Design
Collaboration with theatres: Teatro Linea de Sombra
Additional information: His work covers the areas of musician, sound design, soundtrack composition as well as graphic design, illustration and art direction.