About

"There is no identity without another in which to reflect or deny oneself." — Julia Kristeva

Agnieszka Kotecka

Agnieszka Kotecka is a Mexico City-based artist exploring migration and transcultural identity through the intersection of traditional textiles, digital processes, and large-scale installation. Combining ancestral techniques with glitch aesthetics and data mapping, her practice crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a critical reflection on the delocalization of identity and cultural heritage in the digital age.

Kotecka studied Hispanic Literature at UNAM (1999) and earned a Master's in Textile Design and Print at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland (2006). This binational, interdisciplinary background bridges art, craft, technology, and cultural studies. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across Mexico and internationally, including the Slovak Textile Triennial (2012) and the Biennial of Miniartextile in Como (2012).

Through series such as Latente (2024) and El monje errante (2022), Kotecka reimagines traditional symbologies—embroidery, pre-Hispanic motifs, pixelated geometries—to question hegemonic narratives. She proposes textiles as a space of memory, mapping and transformation, where personal and collective narratives intertwine.

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Artist Statement

I believe that contradictions expose notions of stability and belonging, revealing that identities are fluid and constantly changing. I believe that the true essence of human experience lies in error and continuous transformation. I have lived in Mexico and Poland, always surrounded by a multicultural community that motivates my reflection on transculturality today.

In my work, I examine how modern societies are in constant transition, a process that reflects the flow and chaos characteristic of cultural realities in transformation. I am interested in analyzing mutation, evolution, and continuous change as dynamics that compose these contemporary cultural experiences.

I explore the bicultural experience through language as a shared place of relationships, affections, and worldview. Through different media (traditional techniques and new media), I represent the tensions and changes that identities undergo in an environment of cultural hybridization. I find in the use of textiles a medium that connects the traditional with the contemporary; technology with intuition.

Transcultural aesthetics, in the sense that Homi K. Bhabha defines it as a "third space" of identity, allows me to propose a critique and open a reflection on global issues of mobility, migration, and emerging identities. In the Latente (2023) project, I fuse elements of folklore with classical and contemporary art, exploring the transformation and recomposition of traditions within a hybrid space. Technology and new media are important components of this process, in which I introduce the concept of glitch, or digital error, using the idea of "failure" as a metaphor to address fractures in traditional identity narratives.

Curriculum Vitae

Agnieszka Kotecka, 1979, Mexico

Higher Education

  • 2006 — Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Design, and Textile Printing. Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland.
  • 2005 — Graduate Studies in Visual Arts, Department of Textile and Fashion Design. Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland.
  • 1999 — Hispanic Literature, School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, Mexico.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2026 — .Error, EXIT- La Librería, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2025 — Des.Tierre, Carlos Olachea Gallery, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
  • 2024 — Latente, Casa del Tiempo, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City.
  • 2023 — Pixel Chromatic, Casa de Objetos Tana Karei, Mexico City.
  • 2022 — The Wandering Monk, Ogrodowa 8 Gallery, Łódź, Poland.
  • 2006 — Latajace lale (Flying Dolls), Foro Magdalena Contreras, Mexico City.

Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 — Almost White, LETO Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 2025 — Cartografías Líquidas, Espacio Báltico, Mexico City.
  • 2024 — Memories of Oblivion, Casa Kamffer, Mexico City.
  • 2015 — Razemiosobno, Imaginarium Gallery, Łódź Cultural Center, Łódź, Poland.
  • 2013 — Materia X, Kobro Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland.
  • 2012 — Agora / Miniartextil, 22nd International Textile Miniature Exhibition, Como, Italy.
  • 2012 — Third Textile Triennial "Bez Hranic," Trencin, Slovakia.
  • 2012 — Pomiędzy wyborami / pomiędzy kreacjami, BWA Legnica, Poland.
  • 2009 — TRIP-AR, Festival of Culture and Hip Hop, Faro de Tlahuac, Mexico City.
  • 2008 — Wyobraźnia Zmaterializowana, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland.
  • 2006 — Wyobraźnia Zmaterializowana, BWA Skierniewice, Poland.