Helena Badillo González

My artistic practice moves at the interface of art, science and technology. From philosophical and experimental research, I investigate the limits of image, perception and presence as well as the tension between the visible and the absent.

I'm interested in how images work when they escape full availability and instead require time, attention and experience. I work with analog and digital media and develop works that generate situations of direct perception and contemplation. Central topics of my practice are temporality, memory as well as the mediation between bodies, images and technological systems. I understand art as a relational process that reconfigures perception.

I was born 1994 in Ciudad Sahagún, Mexico, I live and work today in Freiburg im Breisgau. Which Shaped by transcultural experiences, public space plays a central role in my work. In Freiburg, I am influenced by everyday encounters, urban diversity and the transitions between private and public experience.

I studied fine art with a focus on graphics at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH) and completed an academic exchange at the Hongik University in Seoul. My work was exhibited internationally and funded by the Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven (CENART, 2021) and an Artivive Residency in Vienna (2023).