Emil Becerril

Independent researcher and curator. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana (Mexico City, 2013-2016). He also holds a master’s degree in Critical Theory from the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (2017-2018). He is currently pursuing an online specialization in Epistemologies of the South, decolonial theory and cognitive justice by the Latin American Center for Social Sciences (CLACSO). He has collaborated in different projects such as “Critical dialogues 03: UN-Data” (2016); “transformaciones residuales” (laboratory of artistic experimentation and research, mediated by the TRES collective, 2017); “Anecdoteca, notes to hear the objects” (visual essays of the archive of the Catalan artist Francesc Torres, 2018); “imaginologies of the urban” (curatorial residency in Havana, 2019). His research projects focus on the intersections between history, aesthetics, ecology and politics, visual cartographies that reveal the processes of modernization and urbanization of postcolonial cities.