RojoNegro is an artistic collective formed by María Sosa and Noé Martínez, whose practice interweaves ancestral memory, embodied languages, and ritual technologies from a decolonial perspective. Through installation, performance, sound, and work with organic materials, their practice invokes situated forms of knowledge that question processes of colonization and their ongoing effects on bodies, territories, and contemporary cosmologies.

Their projects have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. In 2024, they presented Volví a ser vasija, volví a ser animal. Volví a ser planta, volví a ser tiempo at MAZ (Museo de Arte de Zapopan), Jalisco. In 2022, they carried out Tepalcates de sueños, an OFFSITE intervention by the Swiss Institute in collaboration with Seminario 12 in Mexico City. Recent group exhibitions include Cordillera at Extra Galería (Guatemala), The Cape Town Art Fair with No Mans Gallery (South Africa), and Resilient Currents: On Communal Re-Existence at Forma (Paris, France), all in 2024. In 2023, they participated in Éramos semillas at Stove Works (USA) and Las estrellas me iluminan al revés at No Mans Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Their work has been included in spaces of critical reflection such as the IV Congreso de Estudios Poscoloniales and the VI Jornadas de Feminismo Poscolonial in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018), as well as Ánimecheri KéjtsÏtakua in Buena Park, California (USA). In 2020, they completed an artist residency at the Swiss Institute in New York as part of the Clarice Oliveira Tavares program. Their practice has also been the subject of analysis by important voices in contemporary art, including Tania Candiani, who wrote about their work in the “Artists’ Artists” dossier of FRIEZE magazine (No. 215, 2020), and Stella Botai in ARC magazine of the Royal College of Art (London, 2012).

They are currently representing Mexico at the 61st Venice Art Biennale in 2026 with the project Actos invisibles para sostener el universo.

Text by Jessica Berlanga Taylor