Edgar Fabián Frías

Edgar Fabián Frías is a boundary-defying multidisciplinary artist, educator, and brujx based in Los Angeles, holding degrees in Psychology, Studio Art, and an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley. Drawing on their Wixárika lineage and informed by post-internet, queer, and glitch aesthetics, Frías creates immersive works that interlace technology, spirituality, and collective healing, deliberately unsettling conventional categories.

Their practice investigates resilience and radical imagination through Indigenous Futurism, queer/trans cosmologies, and data justice, crafting portals that function as spells, maps, and mirrors. Through these works, Frías invites re-enchantment while conjuring futures grounded in justice, care, and magic.

As part of their residency, the artist will explore Indigenous and ancestral Wixárika technologies, particularly the Nierika, to inform new ecological and machinic imaginaries. Drawing on ritual practice, diasporic knowledge, and objects held at the Ethnologisches Museum, they will create Nierika using trance-based drawing, code-driven processes, audiovisual work, and performative methods.

The project will produce sculptural forms and a soundscape that act as living interlocutors, bridging human, spirit, and more-than-human realms while emphasizing reparative and relational possibilities.