_Erik López is a Mexican architect whose practice explores the exhibition as a way of thinking — a spatial framework for designing relationships between space, content, objects, and audiences.
Since 2023, he has directed épico estudio, a design practice specializing in exhibition environments and their expansion into other spatial formats connected to art and contemporary culture. He also founded Data Studio in 2021, focused on exhibition, architecture, and design photography. Between 2014 and 2022, he collaborated with Germen Estudio on more than fifty exhibitions for museums and cultural institutions in Mexico and abroad, and in 2019 was part of the team awarded the Miguel Covarrubias Prize (INAH Awards). His work has been commissioned by institutions including MUAC, Museo Amparo, and Casa de México en España.
Erik holds a Master's Degree in Contemporary Design from ETSAB–Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from UNAM.
_IMGN is the VJ project of Erik López. His work, self-described as Digital Expressionism, experiments with the limits of photography, video, and 3D modeling to create live-processed landscapes that address themes related to the internet, cities, and architecture. Working with digital tools, IMGN intends to exclude the technical processes involved in digital creation and focus on improvisation and intuition, mimicking the emotional and unconscious gestures that were gestated in the Abstract Expressionism painting of the 20th century.
Alongside Edgar Mondragón, an electronic music producer from Mexico City, they have created an audiovisual symbiosis that has been live-performed at cultural venues such as Centro Cultural España (CCE), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales (UABC Museum), and world-renowned music festivals like MUTEK México+Japón 2020, MUTEK Montreal 2021, SXSW, NRMAL, and Hipnosis. IMGN’s work has also been selected by digital platforms such as Archdaily, Koozarch and Homeostasis Lab.
Since 2023, he has directed épico estudio, a design practice specializing in exhibition environments and their expansion into other spatial formats connected to art and contemporary culture. He also founded Data Studio in 2021, focused on exhibition, architecture, and design photography. Between 2014 and 2022, he collaborated with Germen Estudio on more than fifty exhibitions for museums and cultural institutions in Mexico and abroad, and in 2019 was part of the team awarded the Miguel Covarrubias Prize (INAH Awards). His work has been commissioned by institutions including MUAC, Museo Amparo, and Casa de México en España.
Erik holds a Master's Degree in Contemporary Design from ETSAB–Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from UNAM.
_IMGN is the VJ project of Erik López. His work, self-described as Digital Expressionism, experiments with the limits of photography, video, and 3D modeling to create live-processed landscapes that address themes related to the internet, cities, and architecture. Working with digital tools, IMGN intends to exclude the technical processes involved in digital creation and focus on improvisation and intuition, mimicking the emotional and unconscious gestures that were gestated in the Abstract Expressionism painting of the 20th century.
Alongside Edgar Mondragón, an electronic music producer from Mexico City, they have created an audiovisual symbiosis that has been live-performed at cultural venues such as Centro Cultural España (CCE), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales (UABC Museum), and world-renowned music festivals like MUTEK México+Japón 2020, MUTEK Montreal 2021, SXSW, NRMAL, and Hipnosis. IMGN’s work has also been selected by digital platforms such as Archdaily, Koozarch and Homeostasis Lab.