RojoNegro is an artist duo consisting of María Sosa (Michoacán, Mexico, 1985) and Noé Martínez (Michoacán, Mexico, 1986). RojoNegro’s practice interweaves ancestral memory, the languages of the body, and ritual technologies from a decolonial perspective. Through installation, performance, sound, and the use of organic materials, their work summons situated forms of knowledge that question processes of colonization and their persistent effects on bodies, territories, and contemporary worldviews.

RojoNegro’s recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: 61st Venice Biennale, Mexican Pavilion, Venice (IT), upcoming; Los fragmentos que curan, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (NL); Volví a ser vasija, volví a ser animal a ser planta, volví a ser tiempo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan (MX), 2024; Tepalcates de sueños, commissioned by the Swiss Institute of New York in Mexico City (MX), 2022; and El encuentro de los tepalcates, an offsite project with a performance and presentation video commissioned by the Swiss Institute of New York (USA), 2021. Their group exhibitions and projects include: Commission for Stuart Collection of UCSD University of San Diego, (USA), upcoming; Fantastic Creatures, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL), upcoming; Transmisión Ancestral, Plataforma, Guadalajara, Jalisco (MX), 2024; Cordillera, Galería Extra, Guatemala City (GU), 2024; Las estrellas me iluminan al revés, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), 2022; and their participation in the Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT), 2016.

María Sosa graduated from the Universidad Michoacán de San Nicolas de Hidalgo. Sosa’s practice stems from her research about our shared colonial past and how it constitutes contemporary social dynamics as an epistemicide of prehispanic worlds, racism, sexism, and the invisibility of multiple non- westerner’s ways of life in the American continent. Sosa’s work is nourished by her research of prehispanic art, anthropology, the methodology of Ecología de Saberes and the exploration of production techniques of ritual prehispanic and contemporary objects.

Noé Martínez is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (“La Esmeralda”) in Mexico City. His work functions as a case study that emerges from personal history, making use of ethnographic methodologies and research of the various histories of indigenous communities of the American continent. Martínez’s work has been screened at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2019; 21 Bienal de Arte contemporáneo SESC Videobrasil, São Paulo, 2019; FilmFront, Chicago, 2019; Native Crossroad Film Festival, Oklahoma, 2018; Festival Internacional de Cine, Morelia, 2018 (Winner of Eye to the Best Short Film of Michoacán); and at the International Performance Art Week, Venice (IT), 2016.