Jordi Alós

Jordi Alós (1993) is a Mexican artist who works from his studio in Mexico City. He studied advertising and design at the Institute of Marketing and Advertising, where he discovered that the boundaries of “what can be” and “what should be” leave room for human expression.

His works exist within both realism and art brut, and Jordi often combines elements from both worlds in his pieces.

Jordi himself refers to his work as art brut, a term used to categorize works that go beyond the epistemological platform of modernity. More precisely, it is a term that emerged to describe the works of producers who are not governed by logos but by the body—that is, producers with mental illnesses. Although the artist has a healthy mind, his art resonates with art brut at a time when both exist only when the body is placed above reason, as human beings did during the period in which art first emerged.

Alós’s works are held in private collections in Dubai, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United States, Mexico, Edinburgh, Spain, and Switzerland.

His work has been exhibited both collectively and individually in Dubai, Indonesia, the Netherlands, the United States, Mexico, Hawaii, Spain, Switzerland, Edinburgh, and London.