Federico Cartas: Artist in residence

Federico Cartas (México, b.1988) uses physics, technology and invention to create complex systems that explore sound, movement and light. With a profound interest in science, cinematography and music, he incorporates all three into his artistic practise. Often working with large scale sculpture and installation, he also exhibits smaller studies, drawings, painting and sculpture that are a bi-product of his kinetic interventions.

 

Working in collaboration with Jorge Galaviz, a professor at the U.N.A.M in Mexico City, his recent acoustic sculptures push the limits of how we listen to sound responding to his interest in sound quality, sound installation and enhancing the human hearing experience. His Meteorite series finds meteorites fallen in the deserts of the Americas: he positions these within high strength lasers to represent the tensions and movement, something also seen in his works on paper. División Azul (agua), a new aquatic sculpture from his series División Azul uses methylene blue - a medical diagnostic dye that appears as electric blue depending on the concentration in aqueous media, and distilled, demineralized and deionized water. 

 

Cartas lives and works in Mexico City. His solo exhibition Tinta Viva at Alchemy Gallery, New York was in January 2024 with recent group shows including Our Eyes Adjust to the Dark at Heart Ego, Monterrey (December 2024), Mexican Art & Design at Galeria Soleille, Ibiza (June 2024), Gloomy Sunday at Konig Gallery, Mexico City (September 2024) and LANZA Perla Krauze & Federico Cartas at BASE Agency, Mexico City (November 2024). He opened his studio at ATRA for ZONA MACO (February 2024) participated in an artist panel at Neue House, New York City during Frieze NYC (May 2024) and showed work at Feria de Million, Bogota (October 2024). Previously Cartas collaborated with Creative Director Amanda Demme, and worked with the studio of artist Jenn Lewin