Percepción Peculiar is the series of images that we form through a perception—as reflected in our visual work—of everything that surrounds us culturally and socially in this incredibly distinct territory that we share.

This perception depends on what surrounds us: the stimuli and reference points that allow us to create, classify, and order our sensory experiences into categories. It is how we make sense of our lives and our realities. Everything constructs our collective vision of our world, grounded in this bicultural territory where we find ourselves.

We are aware that border thinking has been studied within a variety of different disciplines and at different moments in the visual history of the region. In light of this and rooted in our own professional field, we think it worthwhile to survey the graphic design and illustration work of the period from 2010 through 2020; this is a representative overview of regional talent, recognized as a collective of individuals. This selection allows us to observe and reflect on the work in all its geographic and semantic specificity, that is, taking into consideration the multiplicity of possible interpretations.

This unique territory where we live is, of course, the result of exchange between the two countries, traversed on a daily basis and permeating one another. What is so distinct is this region’s development and social configuration, its languages, linguistic mutations, cultural appropriation, political deliberations, the experience of border crossing and culinary, visual, and artistic explorations.