Born in 1990 in Tlaxcala, Mexico, Helena Garza is a visual artist trained in classical music and visual arts. She lives in Mexico City. Her practice has painting as its essential starting point, although in recent years she has incorporated digital technologies, live coding, virtual reality, biotechnology, and performative practices to expand her expressive possibilities. Helena has been selected for national and international competitions such as the XIX Tamayo Biennial, the National Young Art Encounter, the Tlaxcala Visual Arts Award, and the Yucatán Biennial. Her most notable group exhibitions include Screen Strokes (2022, Mexico City), Living Art at Jumex (2022, Mexico City), Hors Champ in Paris, In Balance in San Francisco, Sonar +D in Hong Kong, and Crossing Lines between Paris and Los Angeles, as well as Visiones Femeninas in New York. In addition, she has created murals such as “Woman is Art” at Hotel Me Cabo (2023), and in 2021 she created a mural for Hotel El Ganzo, Los Cabos. Aesthetically, her work is inspired by trends such as vaporwave, cyberpunk, and philosophical and scientific theories about the perception of reality and post-humanity. Helena proposes what she calls a “meta-figurative”: a space/entity on the border between the abstract and the figurative, where nature, objects, and memory are reinterpreted or pushed to the limits of the recognizable. Her works encompass painting, drawing, murals, design, audiovisual and digital media, crossing the analog and the virtual to generate atmospheres that dialogue with the intimate, the scientific, the dreamlike, and the social.

El mural que Helena realizó para el front desk del hotel es una muestra clara de su enfoque híbrido: vemos trazas del oficio tradicional —la pintura mural—, pero los combina con tecnologías digitales, software de diseño y herramientas inmersivas. En esta obra, Helena toma referencias de realidad virtual, biotecnología y de lo que ella llama “código creativo” para construir una pieza que transiciona entre lo físico y lo digital. Resulta una composición donde los límites entre mural, animación, instalación y software se diluyen.