22nd EDITION
2026
PILAR DE ARIÑO
REBECA CORS
PILAR DE ARIÑO
Pilar de Ariño was born in Mexico City in 1992. She studied Industrial Design at Universidad Iberoamericana, graduating in 2015. As part of her academic formation, she spent a year at the Köln International School of Design in Cologne, Germany.
After graduating, she focused on design for museography while working at GN Studio, followed by experience in furniture and interior design at Breuer Studio, and later in collectible sculptural design at EWE Studio.
In parallel, in 2016, she co-founded Cota Studio an independent design studio dedicated to the creation of furniture and objects.
In late 2020, she launched her solo practice, establishing a personal language that merges her design background with her artistic exploration. Her work is rooted in ongoing experimentation with materials, techniques, and artisanal processes drawn from both design and art. She explores the expressive potential of matter as a vehicle for symbolism and narrative. Through various series, she has explored themes such as memory, perception, territory, identity, and the act of inhabiting a place; and the interplay between form and composition.
REBECA CORS
Rebeca Cors, (México, 1988) Deeply inspired by the natural diversity and cultural richness of her surroundings, as well as the craftsmanship and traditions that breathe life into her homeland, she made her deepest purpose to preserve ancestral artisanal techniques, blending her vision with her roots, allowing her to honor and reimagine that legacy.
Through abstractions inspired by the human body and geological formations, Cors creates compositions that invite contemplation and pause. Her works emerge from stillness and convey serenity, balance, and equilibrium, giving rise to a state of inward reflection—where the world around us seems to disappear for an instant, time vanishes, and an intimate void opens, allowing a non-verbal dialogue with the sculptural work to take place.
Guided by this purpose and intention — Cors’ work studies the limits and meeting points between sculpture and utility object, oscillating the in-betweens in order to create both Abstract Sculpture -and- Utility Sculpture.
For Cors, simplicity is a form of depth: Simplicity is not lack of content, but rather the synthesis of complexity.
All hand-made in México.
All Mexican materials and craftsmanship.
Preserving and treasuring our traditions is Cors’ core motive.