Nicolás Segovia
Visual artist and documentary filmmaker
A French-Mexican artist whose work explores the relationship between territory, memory, body, and urban transformation through film, installation, and contemporary audiovisual media. His practice combines documentary, experimental video, painting, sculpture, and immersive pieces, developing projects that engage in dialogue between contemporary art, cinematic narrative, and documentary.
His work has been presented in cultural spaces and exhibitions in Mexico, France and Brazil, integrating formats such as video installation, sculpture, graphic work, and spatial intervention with expanded cinema.
Through projects such as Bodies of Water and various audiovisual investigations on landscape, city and ecology, his work proposes a sensitive reflection on the tensions between nature, infrastructure and human experience.
"Bodies of Water" Projections UC House/Exterior Acme Hall/Edict XXV Exhibition
PLASTIC WORK
CUERPOS DE AGUA
LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO EN EL FUTURO
This exhibition explores Mexico City as an urban body traversed by water flows, memory, infrastructure, and technological transformation.
From a multidisciplinary practice that integrates video installation, expanded documentary, sculptural and graphic work, the exhibition proposes a reading of the city as a living organism in tension between ecological collapse, archive and futuristic speculation.
At the heart of the exhibition is Tlaloque 1, a contemporary effigy that blends pre-Hispanic imagery with aesthetics generated by artificial intelligence. The piece incorporates a head-screen where videos unfold depicting aquatic visions of the city: flooded landscapes, liquid architectures, and mutant urban bodies that oscillate between documentary, fiction, and simulation.
The work articulates a dialogue between ancestral memory and algorithmic technologies, presenting the city as a hybrid entity: archaeological and future, organic and synthetic at the same time.
Sculpture "Tlaloque 1" 200 cm x 90 cm x 60 cm / 2025
"Urban Body" Sculpture, UC House
COSTA CHICA: PUEBLOS NEGROS DE MÉXICO
Costa Chica: Black Towns of Mexico is an interdisciplinary exhibition based on the feature-length documentary of the same name, the result of several years of research and fieldwork in Afro-Mexican communities on the Costa Chica of Guerrero and Oaxaca. Through documentary film, installation, and sculpture, the project explores the memory, identity, and cultural richness of the Afro-descendant communities of the Mexican Pacific, historically rendered invisible within the official narratives of the Mexican nation.
The exhibition interweaves audiovisual fragments from the documentary with a series of sculptures inspired by emblematic figures from the coastal imaginary, placing the region's iconography, myths, and ritual expressions at its center. Among these are the Devil of the Coast and La Minga, central figures in the Dance of the Devils, one of the most important cultural expressions of Afro-Mexican communities.
Far from a conventional ethnographic approach, the exhibition proposes a sensory and poetic experience of the territory, where music, orality, landscape and sculpture function as living archives of Afro-descendant memory and the multiple identities that make up contemporary Mexico.
Proyección en La Cineteca Nacional de México
Proyección en Playa Ventura, Oaxaca, México
