About

Fabian Cuauhtecotzin (Mexico City, 1994) is a visual artist working across painting, sculpture, and performance. His practice engages with ritual as a space of transformation, where personal experience intersects with collective histories.
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Working with materials such as beeswax, wood, and clay, his work draws from pre-Columbian traditions while confronting the tensions between Indigenous cosmologies and Western modernity. Fire becomes both a material and symbolic force, acting as a process of destruction, purification, and renewal.
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Many of his works take the form of altars, not as religious objects, but as active sites where memory, trauma, and myth are brought into confrontation. Through these structures, Cuauhtecotzin explores migration, identity, and the persistence of ancestral knowledge in contemporary contexts.
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The reclamation of his family name, Cuauhtecotzin (“floating eagle” in Nahuatl), stands at the core of his practice, marking an ongoing process of transformation and return.