Starring Blue Panther, Hijo del Santo, VS is a conglomeration of short videos that originate from the evidencing of the sport-spectacle of “lucha libre”, its identity, theatricality, aesthetics, etc. The structure of these videos is based in repetition, in the multiple, the interminable, in a time-space game.

"Good afternoon, fellow travelers, I have it here for sale, come and get it... New dream book, there it is, look what it means to dream, of water, of earth, of blood, of salt, of a white dress, of a black dress. There it is, see it, costs only ten pesos, published by Gomez Gomez, it’ll cost you ten pesos, there it is, see what it means to dream of water, of earth, of salt... ten pesos... only ten pesos."

Mauricio Limón de León. Mexico City, November 30, 1979. He studied Visual Arts at the National School of Fine Arts . He works in painting, installation and video. As a painter he has done a series about transvestism and fashion as camouflage for social identity. His work in the field of installation and video revolves around popular social roles and the dynamics of artistic representation. His most recent project, “El Coro Bizco Merolico” (“The dazzling/cross-eyed quack chorus”), involves the abilities of some metro “quacks” in a counterpoint-style chorus. His work has been shown in and outside Mexico, in Milan, Berlin, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona, San Antonio, Washington D.C. and Oslo. He has curated various experimental projects. He is currently associate curator of “El Eco” Experimental Museum.

One of Joaquín Segura’s most widely circulated pieces, and it remains as one of his most controversial works to date. A 40 second video, documenting a street action in which the artist and some colleagues stole a pair of black 12-inch heel Doc Martens from a passerby in Mexico City, identical to those worn by the artist at the time of the robbery.

Joaquín Segura (Mexico City, 1980) Visual artist. Lives and works in Mexico City. His action, installation, intervention and photographic work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, USA and Europe. Some spaces that have featured his work include La Panaderia, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Centro de la Imagen and Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, along with Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and Palace Adria in Prague, amongst other significant venues. Other activities include curatorial duties for selected projects. His work is currently represented by Arena México Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico.

This video attempts to reflect on the construction of subjectivity through performative acts. It focuses on two young girls as they dance during a family event in Egypt. Employing a formal strategy of visual isolation their body language becomes accentuated, revealing the tension between self-awareness and self-absorption. In their performance the girls awkwardly alternate from adult-like seductive gestures to childish jostling among themselves. By focusing on the singularities of the represented subjects the work transcends its cultural specificity to question notions of girlhood, sexuality and identity formation.

Born in 1975 in Monterrey, Mexico. Her practice includes installation, photograpy and video work that questions notions of geopolitics and cultural identities in the current global landscape. Fuentes recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions in New York, Mexico, Portugal and Puerto Rico and in group shows in venues such as Stux Gallery, The Queens Museum, The Chelsea Art Museum, Smack Mellon, El Museo del Barrio, Exit Art,among others. She has received three grants from the National Council for Culture and the Arts in Mexico (CONACULTA) and was a 2005 Visual Arts Grant recipient from Fundación Marcelino Botín.

Through a hidden camera, the artist spies on hot Portuguese men cruising in a forest.

Omar Gámez was born in Mexico city, Mexico in 1975. He has a bachelors degree in Communications and has a master in Visual Arts. He has participated in more than 25 group shows in Mexico. He has received support from the Culture Department of Mexico City on their “Artes por todas partes” (Art everywhere) program in 2005; He also received the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 grants “Jóvenes Creadores” (Young creators) awarded by the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) and he was given a scholarship to study his master degree at the San Carlos Academy in 2000.

This black & white animation depicts a group of little characters doing a strange and endless ritual in the middle of the mountains: one by one, they go up on a stage, where the shine of a strong spot light makes them pass over. After that, they recover among the audience, waiting for the next turn to climb back up to the stage.

Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Lima, Perú, 1976) works mainly in animation and video. After studying Fine Arts and working in film production in Mexico City, his work has been shown in different art spaces as well as video festivals, like in Museo Carrillo Gil (Mexico), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS, Mexico), Festival de Arte Electronica VideoBrasil (Sao Paulo), Galerie Adler (Frankfurt), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucarest), Centre pour l’Image Contemporain (Geneve), among others. Currently he lives in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.

Is a picture of the different types of blindness that present 3 young people. Each one uses the camera to show which is its relation with the world of the images, allowing us to know how they perceive reality, and approaching us to a different way of understanding the vision.

Pancho Westendarp (México, 1978) I studied in Querétaro, worked in Mexico City and tried to emigrate twice to Spain, the first one was for love, the second, to make a pause in my life. I have a Communication Degree, and taken documentary realization courses at the International Cinema and TV School of Cuba and the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. The videos and installations that I have made, have been presented in different festivals and expositions in México, Brazil, Spain and U.S.A.

El Beso (The Kiss) is a metaphoric representation of a loving moment, where joy, happiness and “weightlessness” are the main characters.

Born in 1966, studied in Mexico City and Paris. In 2003 she received a prize from curator David Ross trough the National Council of the Arts in Mexico City to produce her video installation “The call”. Her work has been in “Deriva mental” curated by Tatiana Cuevas in the Tamayo Museum for Contemporary Art in Mexico City, in “Come Closer” curated by Paola Santoscoy in Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.In November 2006 her video “Birds in my head” will be at the 3rd International video art Biennial in Israel, in the Center for Contemporary Art.

Andrea Robles (Mexico City 1976) obtained a bachelor degree on Visual Communication on 1999. In 2001 she formed the collaboration group dobleA (doubleA) together with Adriana Bravo. In 2002 Robles she created Mirada pérdida (Lost sight). The piece is an animation done with objects. She conceives the work Anatomy of a Moth on 2004. During the same year she received the stipendium Young Creators 2004-2005 from Arts and Culture National Fund. Within this period Robles produces Microftalmía (Microphthalmia), an experimental animation of oil drawings on glass.

Adriana Bravo. She was born on December 9th, 1972 in La Paz Bolivia. She obtained a bachelor in Fine Arts with a major in painting. In 2000 she moves to Mexico City to study an MFA at San Carlos Academy at the National University
of Mexico. In 2002 she ventures into the moving image area with the animation Lost Sight which marks the beginning of
her work in video and animation. In 2003 she creates the animation Anatomy of a Moth. This work was shown at Video Brasil, Interfilm Berlin, Mex Parismental Festival, Paris. It was also shown at the Antimatter festival 2005 in Victoria Canada. It was included in the section Foreign Matter: Mexican Experimental Videos Latest Trends. In 2005 she produces Microftalmía, an experimental animation of oil drawings on crystal.

Heart Aches. A journey through the sensations experienced during a love relationship.

María José cuevas. México City. 1972. Graphic designer who after taking the shopwork “Instant Video” given by Ximena Cuevas in the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda ( México City 2004 ) has never let go of her video camera again.

Fernando Llanos (28/05/1974) it´s a visual artists that was born and lives in Mexico city. He Works with drawing, sound, web and video basically. He has shown his Works in different Festivals and Museums such as the World Wide Video Festival (Holland), Transmediale (Germany), Interference (France), Viart (Venezuela), INPUT (Panama), Transitio (Mexico), Videochroniques (France), Video do Minuto (Brasil), Bienal do Mercosul (Brasil), Guggenheim Museum (New York), etc.
For the last 6 years he has been working on the web with a videoart on-line project: www.fllanos.com.
Now he teachs “Video and new technologies” at the National Center for the Arts, and “Digital Art” at Universidad Iberoamericana.