“Omar Castillo Alfaro grew up in a central territory of Mesoamerica, today the province of Hildalgo in Mexico, not far from the ancient cities of Teotihuacan and Tula. Here, the vestiges of the Toltec empire, the baroque of Spanish colonial architecture and societal problems linked to the industrialization of the region, the trafficking of Narcos and the flight of the population to the United States are all present. Initially trained in metallurgical and chemical engineering, he worked in the largest mining operation in Mexico before undertaking artistic studies that led him to Medellín, Colombia, and then to France. This process of geographical, artistic and political migration inhabits his work and participates in the “wild” identity he claims, crossing thetools of feminist theories and decolonial thoughts. As a repository of traditional know-how, he revisits ancestral craft techniques to question trans-generational affects and the persistence of traumas linked to modernity and the colonial continuum. 
He borrows as much from the Mayan school of painters as from telenovelas or popular poetry to nourish a practice of sculpture and installation through which the past and history hold the present in question. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry and the Faculty of Art and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and of the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon.”