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Explore the workEvery migration begins the same way: with the body arriving before the self does.
I have lived in five countries across two continents. What I've discovered — beneath the differences in language, light, and rhythm — is that places share a visual grammar. Rules written in color and geometry. A code of belonging that no border fully erases.
Crossed Cultures is built from those codes. Landscape photography and pattern design, composed into optical systems that shimmer between what a city looks like and what it has felt like to be inside it. The visual language draws on the tradition of the totem — portraits without faces, evidence of the clans that made survival in each new place possible.
It is also a tribute to every migrant who has opened a path and left something of themselves in the cities that received them.
"I've lost count of how many times I've returned to this city — but it has been more than to the city I was born in." — Jd
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At what age in childhood are we taught to be male or female? Gender is learned at home and within our social environment. Mass media reinforces it — screens, algorithms, and the curated feeds that shape how we see ourselves and others. If gender is performative, it is through play that we first rehearse its norms — in the objects we're handed, the colors assigned to us, the concepts we absorb before we have words for them.
Transdisciplinary & Digital Artist · Barcelona
When people ask what I am, I always have a thousand stories to tell — but in the end I answer: Transdisciplinary Artist. Born in Mexico City, rooted in Barcelona since 2017.
My practice lives where disciplines stop talking to each other and I build the bridge. Graphic design, film, multimedia, 3D animation, live A/V performance — not separate chapters, but simultaneous languages spoken through the same urgent questions: who are we, where do we come from, and what do we owe each other?
Trained at the Universidad Tecnológica de México and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and with a Master's in 3D Animation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, I've spent over two decades learning new tools only to put them in the service of those same questions. Industry work has taken me to the walls of MPC — delivering character simulations for The Lion King: Mufasa, Transformers Rise of the Beasts, and The Wheel of Time. Exhibition work has taken me to the Athens Digital Arts Festival, the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, and the pages of CAMBIO Magazine.
Two thematic lines run through the studio. Persona examines the construction of gender and identity — the masks assigned to us, the selves we perform, the gap between. Crossed Cultures maps the friction and generative energy that emerges when cultural codes collide, drawn directly from my own experience moving between Mexico, the USA, Canada, Germany, and Spain. Both exist as live performance, gallery installation, and collectible print.
My methodology is rooted in semiotics: I study the visual signs and shapes of the socio-economic, political, and cultural environments I move through. Each project becomes a reflection of that reading — through social criticism, denunciation, or symbolism.
My projects are born from the depths of indignation or the pain of the earth — in the sea, the mountains, or in the blood of my people. — Juan de Dios Leon