Leopoldo Alejandro Farrera Cuevas

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He was born in Mexico in 1997. Graduate in Visual Arts with honorable mention from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “ENPEG- La Esmeralda” (INBAL) He also has pictorial studies at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos (FAD-UNAM), and philosophy studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City Campus, ranging from the history of philosophy to its connections with psychoanalysis. He also trained as a filmmaker and screenwriter at the Universidad Iberoamericana, the  Cinematographic Capacity Center (INBAL) and Vancouver Film School.  He is currently studying a master's degree in photography at the Royal College of Art in London. 

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He is co-founder of the LUX-19 Exhibition, a film festival that mixes the visual arts with the cinematographic arts, in which more than 60 short films were exhibited and the main universities of CDMX participated. As an artist, his work has been exhibited at the National Center for the Arts, festivals such as the “International Festival of Art and Culture Quimera”, for three consecutive years (2011, 2012 and 2013), as well as at the “Resonancia Festival”, for part of Discos Diablito in 2019. His work was selected in the Mexico International Photography Festival  2022, and in the Valparaíso International Photography Festival 2022 (Chile) where he was the winner of the edition.  His photobook "In Search of Absences" is currently part of the official selection of the Kassel Dummy Award  (Germany). 

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As a visual artist, his works have been exhibited in Mexico, London (United Kingdom), Valparaíso (Chile). And his photobook has been part of exhibitions in Barcelona (Spain), Tokyo (Japan), Hong Kong (China), Melbourne (Australia) to mention a few, he currently lives and works in London where he focuses his latest production.