Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, Mexico, 1970) experiments at the boundaries between image and sign through a variety of platforms: animation, video, film, drawing, installation, performance, and sound. His artistic research focuses primarily on language and the impossibility/possibility of communicating through media that are unrecognizable or uncodified—sounds, gestures, and symbols. As the basis for many of his explorations, Amorales has used the Liquid Archive, a project composed of shapes, lines, and nodes instead of words, which he began in 1998 and developed for over a decade. In addition to the Liquid Archive, he has created other alphabets and systems that he uses to translate texts ranging from museum labels to short stories. He studied in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. He has participated in artist residencies at Atelier Calder in Saché and MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, as well as in the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. He has exhibited in institutions such as the Phoenix Art Museum, Kurimanzutto New York, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo of Bucharest, Museo Kaluz, Stedelijk Museum, MUAC, Fridericianum and MALBA, among others. He represented Mexico at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and he has participated in numerous biennials. He lives and works in Mexico City.