Ivan Juarez is the founder and principal of x-studio, a multidisciplinary research practice focused on exploring the dialogue between spatial, cultural, and ecological systems. Through his practice, he has conceived a series of projects in diverse contexts and scales, ranging from ecological interventions, landscape acupunctures, low-impact interventions, place making, and site-specific installations to bio-cohabitation spaces, body architectures, sensory devices, and craft pieces. These works have been created in different geographies of Europe, America, America, Africa and Australia.
Multiple international institutions have awarded x-studio | Ivan Juarez´s works, which have been extensively published and exhibited at several museums, galleries, and public venues internationally.
"When thinking about coexisting with our planet, approximations that focus on sensitivity, reciprocity or biodiversity should be considered as means to rethink the existing models. It is essential to perceive our natural environment from a holistic sense. To be emphatic to its own dynamics and being sensitive to the tangible and intangible factors that are part of its essence.
With this perspective, one of the main interests within my practice focuses on exploring new ways to redefine the boundaries between natural habitats and human beings by creating sensitive reflections and artworks that open scenarios for new encounters. I seek to provide a different point of view on the existing relationship of our bio and cultural world from diverse initiatives that aim to sensitize on landscape values. In this way, the projects interact with the living environment, generating new ways of coexistence."
