Eva Posas

Eva Posas is the initiator of Xigagueta, a program of art, writing, and thought from Binnizá territory (in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico) and the author of Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues, published by PrintRoom in the Netherlands in 2024. Since 2024, she is curator of Resquicio at Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City. She has a background in German Literary and Language studies; additionally, she conducts research and dissemination activities related to Binnizá culture.

Interested in collective learning processes, Posas was part of the team behind Materia Abierta from 2019 to 2024. Alongside Mônica Hoff, she co-curated the edition Ni apocalipsis ni paraíso in 2021. From 2020 to 2021, she was selected as a curator in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie and as a fellow at the Nieuwe Instituut from 2022 to 2023. From 2012 to 2018, she served as editorial director and curator at Fundación Alumnos47, where she explored the role of publishing as social provocation, counter narratives, the intersection of public and private spaces, and editing as a subversive methodology. In 2019 and 2020, she shaped and curated Reading Material, a program within Material Art Fair. She has collaborated with various institutions in Mexico City, Guatemala, Bogotá, Sao Paolo, Gateshead, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Basel, Zurich, Berlin, Copenhagen, Venice, Los Angeles, and New York.