Co-Founder

Mexico City, 1983

Self-taught. Valerie spent her childhood in Los Angeles, California in direct contact with street art and the Lowbrow movement, which became her first visual influences. At 38, Valerie Campos has built an outstanding career, with exhibitions in Belgium, China, Indonesia, Canada, France, Spain, Mexico, and the United States. She has received scholarships through Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (2020) and Young Creators program (2014/15), as well as a variety of residencies: Back to Basics (CITY, Finland, 2019), KIAR (CITY, India, 2019), GLO’ART (Laneken, Belgium, 2017), LAC (Kansas City, USA, 2014/15), the Xu Yuan Center (Beijing, China, 2013/14), the Red Gate Gallery (Beijing, China, 2013), and the Banff Center for the Arts (Banff, Canada, 2011). Her work has been selected in competitions and biennials, the most notable of which are the KC Film Festival (2015), the 4th Yucatán Art Biennial (2009), the Monterrey Artemergente National Biennial (2010), the 1st J. Guadalupe Posada International Engraving Biennial (2013), the a-part International Contemporary Art Festival (Alpilles, France, YEAR) and ARTFEST (CITY, 2006).

In 2014, Valerie founded Nao Now, a project that seeks to promote the Mexican contemporary art scene abroad through an intercultural exchange between Mexico, China, and the US. Valerie currently leads/ production for Vaivén Collectors, a non-profit platform that produces short-format documentary series in order to open, promote, and disseminate dialogues about contemporary art in Mexico.

Co-Founder

Mexico City, 1971

Heriberto is a self-taught artist whose work fluctuates between the rigidity of the academy, which he learned from classical painting, and the playful fragmentation of the comic strips of his childhood. Since the beginning, Heriberto has drawn upon magazines and old books he finds on sale to elaborate his work: documents of a history he continuously rewrites and reinterprets. He works with pages of magazines from the 50s and publications from the 19th century, drawing and crossing out, superimposing images and text, in order to decontextualize and resignify the object, using fragments of past stories as an aid in reminding us that history rewrites itself again and again. He began his work in the first half of the 90s; in 1997 and 1999, he received a scholarship for young creators from Mexico’s National Endowment for Culture and the Arts, and in 2001 his pictorial project “The History Book” won an Acquisition Prize at the 21st National Encounter for Youth Art in Aguascalientes, Mexico. His work has been recognized in Mexico and internationally, including honorable mentions in the 3rd and 4th Alfredo Zalce Painting and Engraving Biennial (2001, 2003), the 1st Pedro Coronel Painting Biennial (2008), and in the 4th Yucatán National Visual Arts Biennial (2009). He has received residency grants from the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, USA (2003, 2013); from 2004–2005, he carried out a series of exhibitions in Valencia, Spain that led to his winning the L’horta Youth Art Prize (2005).

Executive Producer

Mexico City, 1972

His professional output in the last 20 years is associated with producing and editing content for TV, first on Cadena Tres and Excelsior TV, and finally on Imagen TV, where he works as an editor and Coordinator of TV Operations— the area in charge of evaluating the content and quality of programs before they are aired.

Because of his studies in political science, many of his projects as a photographer are related to society and our surroundings, and how these influence not only the way we live, but also the ways we perceive the world, depending on our position in it.

Audio Composition, Design, and Editing

Veracruz,1983.

Carlos graduated from the College of Music at Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied piano with Ileana Bautista de la Torre (2002–2006) and composition with Jorge Torres Sáenz and José Luis Castillo (2004–2007) He has played as a soloist and as part of various ensembles in concert halls in Mexico, the US, Germany, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Romania, and Russia. He has received grants from the Program to Incentivize Artistic Creation and Development in Veracruz, Mexico (2009 and 2012) and from Mexico’s National Endowment for Culture and the Arts in the categories of Artistic Residencies (2013) and Young Creators (2014–2015).

His compositions include works for symphony orchestra, chamber music, theater, dance, and interdisciplinary collaborations. He has played with the Entretango quintet, the Mexican Tango Orchestra, and the Liminar ensemble. Since 2018, he has been a resident musician at Mexico’s National Theatre Company, where he has worked with a variety of directors, including Alberto Lomnitz, Mario Espinosa, Angélica Rogel, Enrique Singer, and Antonio Red.

Tamaulipas, 1989

With a Bachelor's degree in Communication from the Iberoamericana University (Mexico City) with a specialization in Cinematography from the Mantarraya Film Workshop. Fonca Fellowship 2014 in script writing. She has worked professionally in the areas of scriptwriting, direction, production and art direction. She is a certified teacher of Transcendental Meditation in Mexico.

She currently coordinates the Panorama film festival of Tampico, Tamaulipas. She collaborates with Vaivén both in cultural management, video production and community managment .

Audiovisual producer and director

Mexico City, 1985

Graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), he completed a master's degree in Film Studies and Documentary Filmmaking at the University of Paris (Diderot) and a PHD in Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the Sorbonne University.

He has completed diplomas in production, scriptwriting, directing and showrunner in Cuba, Colombia and Mexico. He has received several sholarships: FONCA (2010), Conahcyt (2013), Région Île de France (2015), FDC-Proimágenes (2019), IDARTES Bogotá (2021) and PROCINE CDMX (2023) for audiovisual research.

He is the author of the books Résilience des images et des récits (PUR 2020), Alteropoéticas del 'yo' in Colombian documentary cinema (Aula de Humanidades, 2021) and Del gesto a la mirada (Cinemateca de Bogotá, 2023), as well as several articles on audiovisual arts and industries. He has taught history and audiovisual media at the Sorbonne University, the Francisco José de Caldas District University of Bogotá and the Autonomous University of Mexico City.

In addition to working as a producer and film director at Vaivén, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mora Institute at the Audiovisual Laboratory for Social Research (LAIS).