Residente Cero. Rubén Puerto

ABOUT THE ARTIST
 

Rubén Puerto is a visual artist and psychologist whose artistic practice is marked by a profound symbolic and spiritual dimension. His training in Ericksonian hypnosis and his experience in the therapeutic field directly inform his approach to art, understood as a space for exploring the unconscious, memory, and internal processes.

His work develops through abstract and gestural languages, using materials such as wood, spray paint, and inks to create compositions that evoke symbolic structures, inner landscapes, and imagined vestiges.

AVAILABLE ARTWORKS

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PROJECT DEVELOPED DURING THE RESIDENCY
 

During his residency at ACERT, Rubén Puerto developed the new series Artificial Archaeology, a body of work produced over eight weeks of intensive studio practice. The series imagines ruins of the future: symbolic structures that evoke both natural landscapes and spiritual architectures. Through repetitive gestures and layers of material, the artist constructs a fictional archaeology that reflects on time, collective memory, and the traces we leave behind as humanity.

The curatorial accompaniment throughout the residency enabled a constant dialogue around process, intention, and language, strengthening the conceptual and material research behind the project.
 

FINAL EXHIBITION
 

Residente Cero. Rubén Puerto
June 5 – July 3, 2025
 

The exhibition presented the outcome of the residency process, opening to the public a body of work deeply connected to the time of production, the studio space, and the context experienced in Mexico City.
 

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
 

As part of his social commitment within ACERT’s residency program, Rubén Puerto developed the project MUNDOMON, leading two free workshops for children between the ages of 5 and 12.
 

MUNDOMON is a space for free creation, collaborative drawing, and emotional listening, where art becomes a tool to express fears, dreams, and emotions. The workshop’s approach is not technical, but human: what matters is not “drawing well,” but finding one’s own language for expression.
 

This social action formed an integral part of the residency, reinforcing the idea of art as a means to generate dialogue and regenerate bonds.