Meet our team
Sel (A.K.A. Adiós Al Futuro)
Intersex artist and activist specialized in research and development of conceptual projects across various media: photography, video art, video mapping, installation, relational art, and object art mainly. In 2015 she began her most ambitious artivist project, “Proyecto intersexual” (Intersex Project), a research and artistic creation proposal focused on her personal experience and that of the Mexican intersex community.
Since then, she has constantly collaborated with national and regional activist projects, generating an intense production of artistic materials focused on generating knowledge and awareness about the serious human rights violations suffered by her community at the local and international level, work that has led her to travel to important national and international forums, such as: the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW-UN) in Geneva, Switzerland, the CREA WORLD international meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, the BAK Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the Ex Convento del Carmen Museum in Guadalajara, the Venir Al Sur Festival in Montevideo, Uruguay, the regional meetings of Intersex people held in San José, Costa Rica and Buenos Aires, Argentina, among many others.
In 2019 she founded the NGO Laboratory of Divergent Narratives to expand her artivist work; in 2024 she opened Casa INTER, a space for experimentation and artivist creation in the city of Guadalajara, and through these projects she continues to disseminate and defend human rights through her creative work and collaborating with projects and institutions from a critical, intersectional, and humanist perspective.
Alejandro Gallo
Advertising photographer for more than 20 years, in the process of leaving that behind. He accompanied Temacapulín in the last stage of its struggle, which has lasted more than 18 years. Alongside sound artists, he participated in an exhibition that sought to give voice to its struggle, especially in circles and spaces that tend to ignore “small” social struggles.
Interested in using the skills acquired to help other processes and other struggles record, capture, and express through photography and video their feelings, processes, and experiences.
Beginning to experiment in Documentary Film, he did the photography for “23 de Septiembre,” a film by Mario Marlo about the history of the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre before they were called that: San Andrés and his Vikings, with more projects in the pipeline.
He currently combines commercial work with artivism, alongside the Laboratory of Divergent Narratives.
German Paley
Social Museologist, Cultural Agitator, Art Educator, Teacher-Trainer.
In 2023, he joined the LND team, collaborating on various artivism projects as
Pedagogical Advisor, in the design and imagination of new narratives/poetics against the
discourses of hate toward all kinds of dissidences.
His cultural militancy takes him through fields linked to culture, education, and art.
He incorporates knowledge from formal-academic fields and non-formal spaces. He is
an English translator (Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas), Photographer
(Universidad de San Martín), Agent-Contemporary Artistic Practices (CIA–Centro de
Investigaciones Artísticas), Museum Management Laboratory (TyPA Foundation).
Through “El Museo Humano” he promotes museum transformation toward paradigms of
community activation, well-being and personal-collective flourishing, and institutional deconstruction to make possible new ways of doing and feeling museum.
Since 2019 he has lived in Mexico City. As a Museum Consultant and workshop facilitator, he actively collaborates with the Museo Tamayo, MUAC, Museo Arocena, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, among others. Professor at IMCR - Instituto Mexicano de Curaduría y Restauración -, he teaches courses on social museology toward a participatory culture free of violence. Since 2020, he has been curator of the UNAM International Meeting of Free and Diverse Childhoods and Adolescences. In November 2024, as part of the Organizing Committee, he promotes the 1st Biennial Symposium on Museums and Sociocultural Management of the University of Costa Rica.
Hana Aoi
Profile: María Alejandra Sánchez Monroy, born in Mexico City in 1981,
is pursuing a Master's in Women's Studies at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,
Xochimilco campus (UAM-X), and holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She works actively for the human rights
of intersex people, under the name Hana Aoi. She coordinates the project
Vivir y Ser Intersex and is part of the Brújula Intersexual collective. She advocates for the visibility of intersexuality and its particular issues, and for the recognition of the right of intersex people to autonomy and informed consent, through workshops, talks, media interviews, and reflections and articles; she collaborated with the editorial team of the Mexico City Human Rights Commission in coordinating the March 2018 issue of DFensor magazine, with the theme “Intersexuality and human rights.” She participated in the 4th International Intersex Forum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in the First Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Intersex People, in San José, Costa Rica. She collaborated in the review and submission of comments to the Guide of recommendations for the care of intersexuality and variation in sexual differentiation of the Ministry of Health, published in June 2017. Her current line of research revolves around the life experiences of people born with intersex variations, traversed by medical discourse and the social gaze, with a feminist approach and from critical intersex studies.
Sel (A.K.A. Adiós Al Futuro)
Intersex artist and activist specialized in research and development of conceptual projects across various media: photography, video art, video mapping, installation, relational art, and object art mainly. In 2015 she began her most ambitious artivist project, “Proyecto intersexual” (Intersex Project), a research and artistic creation proposal focused on her personal experience and that of the Mexican intersex community.
Since then, she has constantly collaborated with national and regional activist projects, generating an intense production of artistic materials focused on generating knowledge and awareness about the serious human rights violations suffered by her community at the local and international level, work that has led her to travel to important national and international forums, such as: the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW-UN) in Geneva, Switzerland, the CREA WORLD international meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, the BAK Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the Ex Convento del Carmen Museum in Guadalajara, the Venir Al Sur Festival in Montevideo, Uruguay, the regional meetings of Intersex people held in San José, Costa Rica and Buenos Aires, Argentina, among many others.
In 2019 she founded the NGO Laboratory of Divergent Narratives to expand her artivist work; in 2024 she opened Casa INTER, a space for experimentation and artivist creation in the city of Guadalajara, and through these projects she continues to disseminate and defend human rights through her creative work and collaborating with projects and institutions from a critical, intersectional, and humanist perspective.
Alejandro Gallo
Advertising photographer for more than 20 years, in the process of leaving that behind. He accompanied Temacapulín in the last stage of its struggle, which has lasted more than 18 years. Alongside sound artists, he participated in an exhibition that sought to give voice to its struggle, especially in circles and spaces that tend to ignore “small” social struggles.
Interested in using the skills acquired to help other processes and other struggles record, capture, and express through photography and video their feelings, processes, and experiences.
Beginning to experiment in Documentary Film, he did the photography for “23 de Septiembre,” a film by Mario Marlo about the history of the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre before they were called that: San Andrés and his Vikings, with more projects in the pipeline.
He currently combines commercial work with artivism, alongside the Laboratory of Divergent Narratives.
German Paley
Social Museologist, Cultural Agitator, Art Educator, Teacher-Trainer.
In 2023, he joined the LND team, collaborating on various artivism projects as
Pedagogical Advisor, in the design and imagination of new narratives/poetics against the
discourses of hate toward all kinds of dissidences.
His cultural militancy takes him through fields linked to culture, education, and art.
He incorporates knowledge from formal-academic fields and non-formal spaces. He is
an English translator (Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas), Photographer
(Universidad de San Martín), Agent-Contemporary Artistic Practices (CIA–Centro de
Investigaciones Artísticas), Museum Management Laboratory (TyPA Foundation).
Through “El Museo Humano” he promotes museum transformation toward paradigms of
community activation, well-being and personal-collective flourishing, and institutional deconstruction to make possible new ways of doing and feeling museum.
Since 2019 he has lived in Mexico City. As a Museum Consultant and workshop facilitator, he actively collaborates with the Museo Tamayo, MUAC, Museo Arocena, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, among others. Professor at IMCR - Instituto Mexicano de Curaduría y Restauración -, he teaches courses on social museology toward a participatory culture free of violence. Since 2020, he has been curator of the UNAM International Meeting of Free and Diverse Childhoods and Adolescences. In November 2024, as part of the Organizing Committee, he promotes the 1st Biennial Symposium on Museums and Sociocultural Management of the University of Costa Rica.
Hana Aoi
Profile: María Alejandra Sánchez Monroy, born in Mexico City in 1981, is pursuing a Master's in Women's Studies at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco campus (UAM-X), and holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She works actively for the human rights of intersex people, under the name Hana Aoi. She coordinates the project Vivir y Ser Intersex and is part of the Brújula Intersexual collective. She advocates for the visibility of intersexuality and its particular issues, and for the recognition of the right of intersex people to autonomy and informed consent, through workshops, talks, media interviews, and reflections and articles; she collaborated with the editorial team of the Mexico City Human Rights Commission in coordinating the March 2018 issue of DFensor magazine, with the theme “Intersexuality and human rights.” She participated in the 4th International Intersex Forum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in the First Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Intersex People, in San José, Costa Rica. She collaborated in the review and submission of comments to the Guide of recommendations for the care of intersexuality and variation in sexual differentiation of the Ministry of Health, published in June 2017. Her current line of research revolves around the life experiences of people born with intersex variations, traversed by medical discourse and the social gaze, with a feminist approach and from critical intersex studies.