Mexico Never Left My Work

Leaving your country changes the way you see it forever.

The longer I’ve lived abroad, the more I’ve realized that Mexico never disappeared from my work. It simply transformed.

Sometimes it appears through color.
Sometimes through symbolism.
Sometimes through emotion, texture, chaos, spirituality, or the way I approach storytelling.

Growing up in Mexico meant growing up surrounded by contrasts, beauty and imperfection, celebration and grief, surrealism and everyday life existing at the same time.

I think that duality shaped the way I create.

Even when working with immersive technologies, scenography, or contemporary installations, I still find myself searching for something deeply human underneath the surface.

Perhaps that is why I’m drawn to emotional experiences instead of spectacle alone.

Migration also changes your relationship with identity. The further away I moved from home, the more aware I became of the invisible things I carried with me:
language,
sensibility,
memory,
humor,
warmth,
nostalgia,
the way emotion exists inside Mexican culture.

Art became a way of carrying those fragments across borders.

Today, my work exists somewhere between physical and digital worlds, between Mexico and Europe, between traditional craftsmanship and emerging technologies.

But emotionally, I think I’m still searching for the same thing:
creating spaces that make people feel connected, vulnerable, curious, and alive.

Perhaps home never truly leaves us.
It simply evolves into new forms.

— Miroslava Arangutia

On identity, migration, and carrying home through art.