ARCHIVO
LATINO
ABOUT

[What]

We are a mail-art-inspired research collective documenting the identities, cultures, and spatial practices of Latin America and its diaspora. Through “Letter(s) of Request,” we invite anyone inhabiting or transient to Latinidad to co-author an open, ever-evolving archive of visual, linguistic, and tactile artifacts.

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Our contributors record ways of dwelling, building, adapting, and moving through the region, attending to architectural irregularities, everyday encounters, and vernacular forms of ingenuity. This collective listens to the absent as much as the present, reading space as informal, precarious, self-built, and incomplete.

Bringing together artists, architects, writers, designers, and cultural theorists, we propose alternative methods of spatial research, uncover hidden histories, and reveal how social, economic, and cultural conditions become inscribed into the everyday landscape.

[Who]

Led by four practitioners from Latin America and abroad, Andrea Sánchez Moctezuma, Signe Ferguson, Renee Neme and Ana Amelia Batlle Cabral, we combine architecture, curation, and visual research to create malleable, digital archives exploring spatial memory and culture.

Andrea Sanchez Moctezuma [+-]
Co-founder & Archive Director

Andrea is an architectural designer from Mexico City. She holds a Master’s in Architecture from Yale University and a B.Arch with distinction from SCI-Arc, where she received the Thesis Merit Prize. In 2020, Andrea founded Autonomous Construction [AC], a multi-focus design practice based in LA & Mexico City. AC explores built, written, and temporal projects through a continuous loop of research, conceptual work, and fabrication. Some recent studio projects include The Monobloc Archive and The Taxonomy of unscripted living, which documents “informality” in rural Mexico.

Signe Ferguson [+-]
Co-founder & Editorial Director

Signe’s practice explores reassembly, material utopias, and in-between spaces. She is co-founder of BASA Atelier, a collaborative architecture, art, and research studio based between CDMX, New York, the Dominican Republic, and London. Trained at Yale and Brown in architecture, her work spans material science, performance, community fieldwork, collective organization, land art and stewardship, architecture, set design, sculpture, and furniture. Her independent research explores memorial and memory through “climate metronomes,” alongside methodologies for preserving serious play and appreciating the mundane.

Renée Neme Villarreal [+-]
Co-founder & Programming Director

Renée is a designer, curator, and writer working between Mexico City and New York. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, her practice is grounded in transforming everyday materials into considered, poetic forms. As Founder and Director of El Patio, a multidisciplinary cultural center and artist studio space in Mexico City, Renée’s work bridges conceptual development with practical execution. Whether through objects, exhibitions, publications, or community platforms, she seeks to create environments where poetry and structure coexist and where art becomes a shared, lived experience.

Ana Amelia Batlle Cabral [+-]
Archive & Exhibition Consultant

Ana is a Dominican-born architect, designer, and co-founder of BASA, trained at the Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA) and Yale University (M.Arch). Grounded in material research, craft, and myth, her practice spans architecture, furniture, surrealist objects, and land art. By treating native Dominican resources as cultural and ecological agents rather than commodities, she crafts ritualistic forms occupying a liminal space between the functional and symbolic, charged with memory, identity, and narrative weight.

Submission Agreement [×]

By contributing to this project, you grant Archivo Latino permission to digitally replicate, archive, and display your submitted text, imagery, and object media.

Privacy Policy [×]

Archivo Latino respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. We collect personal details, such as your name and email address, only when you voluntarily provide them through contact forms or project contributions. This information is used to process contributions, communicate with contributors, administer the archive, and maintain project records.

Photographs and accompanying information intentionally submitted for inclusion in Archivo Latino—including the photographer's name, location, and year of the photograph—may be reproduced, exhibited, published, and distributed as part of the archive, including in exhibitions, books, printed publications, and other project materials. Where applicable, contributors will receive the compensation described in the relevant project invitation or agreement.

We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. You may request access to or correction of personal information held in our administrative records by contacting us directly. Requests concerning materials intentionally contributed to the archive will be considered in accordance with the terms under which those materials were submitted and the project's archival and publication purposes.

INDEX

[Addressee]

[City]

[Country]

[Type]

[Date Received][Year]

SELECT ONE

[L000076] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000077] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[P0000293] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000072] Panama City, Panama [+]
[L000074] Los Cabos, Mexico [+]
[L000078] Baja California, Mexico [+]
[A00001] NA, Mexico [+]
[A000017] NA, Mexico [+]
[L000075] Audrey Tseng, CDMX [+]
[L000014] Mazunte, Mexico [+]
[L000019] Yucatan, Mexico [+]
[L000033] San Juan, Puerto Rico [+]
[L000034] Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic [+]
[L000036] San Juan, Puerto Rico [+]
[L000037] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000038] Caracas, Venezuela [+]
[L000039] Culiacan, Mexico [+]
[L000040] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000073] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000071] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000020] Morelia, Mexico [+]
[L000021] Tequila, Mexico [+]
[L000022] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[P0000243] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000041] La Habana, Cuba [+]
[L00008] Veracruz, Mexico [+]
[L000017] Los Cabos, Mexico [+]
[L000035] Sao Paulo, Brasil [+]
[LR00001] Coahuila, Mexico [+]
[P000031] Holbox, Mexico [+]
[L000018] Araoz, Coyoacan [+]
[L00001] Coahuila, Mexico [+]
[L00005] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000015] Bogota, Colombia [+]
[L000016] Tequila, Mexico [+]
[L000024] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000025] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000026] Puerto Escondido, Mexico [+]
[L000027] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000029] Vizarretea, Puerto Escondido [+]
[L000030] Vizarretea, Acapulco [+]
[L000031] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L000032] CDMX, Mexico [+]
[L00002] Nagua, Republica Dominicana [+]
[L000012] Sao Paulo, Brasil [+]
[L00009] Los Andes, Chile [+]
[L000013] Punta del Este, Uruguay [+]
[L000010] Buenos Aires, Argentina [+]
[L000023] Quito, Ecuador [+]
[P000011] Sao Paulo, Brasil [+]

EVENTS

Dear Visitor,

This space is an open invitation to document and build our collective archive together. Here you will find active and previous open calls, community workshops, and exhibition announcements and records.

AGOSTO 2026
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[Upcoming]

Open Call: Dispatch / ELECTIONS
Opens: 01 septiembre 2026
Closes: 04 octubre 2026
[Request]
Text & Image
Dispatch / ELECTIONS

Are you tracking the rapid transformations across Venezuela and Colombia?

Are you in a Latin country that is currently or has recently experienced elections?

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We are seeking contributors to document evolving public spaces, construction sites, and civic landscapes through photographic observation and long-form essays on elections and the environment.

Sign up below to receive a personalized Letter of Request with your research assignment.

Respond by 04 October 2026 at info@archivolatino.org

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[Past]

Exhibition: Memoria de Teflón (Teflon Memory), CDMX
On View: 14 marzo – 04 abril 2026
Location: El Patio Sierra Santa Rosa 37 CDMX

Memoria de Teflón (Teflon Memory) represents a critique of a system where our history slips away and is easily forgotten, while the Archive introduces the indelible mark of the individual across time, serving as a reminder of the urgency of not forgetting. The co-habitation of El Patio offers domestic considerations for objects that were catalyzed by the collection of Latino Archivo.

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Archivo Latino is a visual repository inspired by the methods of mail-art. The archive is dedicated to documenting the identity and culture of Latin America and its diaspora. The project operates as an open platform in constant construction, through a "Letters of Request". These letters are addressed to Latinos in Latin America and non-Latinos in Latin America. Archivo Latino is an experiment that provides a platform for archives, testimonies, resistance, and Latino identities - through memory, written correspondence, and photographic archives. The exhibition seeks to raise awareness about historical erasure and the contemporary socio-political issues of Latin America, reinforcing a sense of permanence even in the temporal. As a first introduction to physical public space, Archivo Latino presents a part of the process of cataloguing itself.

Contributors:
(all names listed in alphabetical order)
Alejandro A. Aguirrechu, Marcelo Sanchez Breton, Maria del Carmen Breton Vigil, Diego Alfonzo Caleya, Jake Ferguson, Margot Kalach, Zishi Li, Luciano Menghini, Adriana Moctezuma, Juan Vallejo Nagera, Tania Ojeda, Eleonora Orlandi, Orlando Porras, Juan Sala, Micaela Valentin, Gosbinda Vizarreta, Jiaxing Yan.

Curation:
Renee Neme
Andrea Sánchez Moctezuma
Signe Ferguson
Ana Batlle

Institutional Partners:
El Patio

Sponsor:
Santabrisa

Photography:
Lorenza Clapp

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Exhibition: Memoria de Teflón (Teflon Memory)
On View: 02 febrero – 02 marzo 2026
Location: Los Angeles, CA

For its inaugural exhibition in Los Angeles, Archivo Latino interrogates the mechanics of nostalgia to reframe the archive as a locus of family history. Through personal correspondence, domestic ephemera, and photographic studies, familial artifacts are repositioned as spatial evidence. The exhibition examines how inherited memory and emotional landscapes construct architectural identity, translating personal sentiment into a collective research and curatorial framework.

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Contributors:
(all names listed in alphabetical order)
Alejandro A. Aguirrechu, Marcelo Sanchez Breton, Maria del Carmen Breton Vigil, Diego Alfonzo Caleya, Jake Ferguson, Margot Kalach, Zishi Li, Luciano Menghini, Adriana Moctezuma, Juan Vallejo Nagera, Tania Ojeda, Eleonora Orlandi, Orlando Porras, Juan Sala, Micaela Valentin, Gosbinda Vizarreta, Jiaxing Yan.

Curation:
Renee Neme
Andrea Sánchez Moctezuma
Signe Ferguson
Ana Batlle

Workshop: Napkins of Request
Collaborator: Fundacion Marso, Colectivo Amasijo & Tianguiz tli al atardecer
Date: 03 diciembre 2025
Location: Berlin 37, Col. Juárez, CP 06600, Mexico City

Napkins of Request is a workshop initiated by the intersection of Mexican cotton cloth and a Star Lite typewriter and a collaboration with @colectivo_amasijo for the weekly @tianquiz_tli_al_atardecer in CDMX Colonia Juarez on December 3rd 2025, where Archivo Latino introduced the letter writing project to the public, and focusing the conversation on land, territories, tendership, agriculture and food systems.

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Panel Activation:
Presentation of Archivo Latino documenting and archiving without rigidity, overlaid onto nomadic perspectives and the territories where perspectives are formed. The panel discussed the history of the archive, the tradition of letter writing, and culminated in a dialogue with the farmers & sellers of the Tianquiz Tli Al Atardercer.

NOTES

Dear Reader,

The editorial extension of Archivo Latino is centered on critical essays and curated selections from the archive as part of a bi-annual print publication; where we contextualize and share the archive’s growing collection, activating archive as prompt.

[Editor’s Note]

Issue No. 1
29 septiembre 2026

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[Editor’s Note]

Issue No. 2
30 marzo 2027

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[Editor’s Note]

Issue No. 3
28 septiembre 2027

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[Criticism]

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[Essay]

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[Interview]

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[Review]

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[Essay]

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[Interview]

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[Review]

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[Criticism]

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[Essay]

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[Past Exhibition]
Memoria de Teflón (Teflon Memory), CDMX
14 MARZO 2026
On View: 14 marzo – 04 abril 2026
Location: El Patio Sierra Santa Rosa 37 CDMX
Information [+-]

Memoria de Teflón (Teflon Memory) represents a critique of a system where our history slips away and is easily forgotten, while the Archive introduces the indelible mark of the individual across time, serving as a reminder of the urgency of not forgetting. The co-habitation of El Patio offers domestic considerations for objects that were catalyzed by the collection of Latino Archivo.

Archivo Latino is a visual repository inspired by the methods of mail-art. The archive is dedicated to documenting the identity and culture of Latin America and its diaspora. The project operates as an open platform in constant construction, through a "Letters of Request". These letters are addressed to Latinos in Latin America and non-Latinos in Latin America. Archivo Latino is an experiment that provides a platform for archives, testimonies, resistance, and Latino identities - through memory, written correspondence, and photographic archives. The exhibition seeks to raise awareness about historical erasure and the contemporary socio-political issues of Latin America, reinforcing a sense of permanence even in the temporal. As a first introduction to physical public space, Archivo Latino presents a part of the process of cataloguing itself.

Contributors:
(all names listed in alphabetical order)
Alejandro A. Aguirrechu, Marcelo Sanchez Breton, Maria del Carmen Breton Vigil, Diego Alfonzo Caleya, Jake Ferguson, Margot Kalach, Zishi Li, Luciano Menghini, Adriana Moctezuma, Juan Vallejo Nagera, Tania Ojeda, Eleonora Orlandi, Orlando Porras, Juan Sala, Micaela Valentin, Gosbinda Vizarreta, Jiaxing Yan.

Curation:
Renee Neme
Andrea Sánchez Moctezuma
Signe Ferguson
Ana Batlle

Institutional Partners:
El Patio

Sponsor:
Santabrisa

Photography:
Lorenza Clapp