Alexis Mata is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Mexico City. With a background originating from street interventions, Mata has managed to navigate through many media ranging from collage, drawing, painting, installation, and digital art. Thus, despite the diversity of plastic resources, his work remains permeated by a substantial social and political burden. In his body of work, we can find recurring references to death, violence, beauty, and the exaltation of Manichaean ideas of a prosperous but corrosive past at the same time.

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Mata investigates aesthetics through visual archetypes and creates, from an error exercise, cuts, glitches, and pixelated, new images resulting from the fracture of classics determined in a practice that takes the collage from the field of the formal to the area of copyright. These pieces juxtapose images and self-reflection exercises that ask questions about the beauty and representation of this in an analog-digital-analog process in media such as photography, graphics, and painting.

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For his series Espejismos de Origen (Mirages of Origin), Mata explores individual and collective identification processes concerning official history and national mythology.

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More recently, Sueñan las flores que desaparecen (Dreaming that flowers disappear) explores the reinvention of the real as fiction by erasing the limits between the virtual and the palpable, absence and presence, the original and the replica. From still-life images, this series revolves around the poetics of disappearance. Featuring the transmutation of flowers facing the promise of change, the pieces no longer only expose flaws and errors but also become deformed to the point of abstraction, disappearing amidst their infinite forms.

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His work has been exhibited in different individual and collective exhibitions at a national and international level, in private and public spaces highlighting samples such as "Mexico: Reactive Painting" at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, "Persistence of Memory," MUCA Roma," La Raíz de mi falla" in the Fine Arts Exhibition Hall, Puebla, "Mexico: Reactive Painting" at the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, "Persistence of Memory", MUCA Roma, "The Death of the Author" at MAIA Contemporary, CDMX, "Error" in Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, "Distorting Views" in Brick Lane Gallery, London, among others.