Beatriz Cruz Vallarta
I am a Mexican artist and writer based in Germany. My practice unfolds at the intersection of performance, poetry, and memory.
I investigate migration as a corporeal and linguistic condition. I am interested in how cultural memory shifts, transforms, and is reactivated through voice, ritual, and orality. I work with affective archives, tradition, and the migrant experience as living materials.
I grew up in Xochimilco, a lacustrine territory in Mexico City where time is structured around ritual and community life. This early experience shaped my understanding of culture as a situated practice. Today, my work engages with displacement, translation, and the experience of inhabiting another language.
My artistic practice approaches nostalgia as a political and poetic force that negotiates identity, territory, and belonging.
I currently develop projects in Europe that bring together performative action, poetic writing, and cultural mediation within migrant contexts.
In my academic research, I focus on theatrical pragmatics and synesthetic processes in Mexican poetry, examining how language generates bodily experience and performative meaning.