BIOGRAPHY
Carmen Mariscal is a London-based Mexican artist and practice-based PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art. Her doctoral research, Memory and Oblivion: An Investigation through the Remains of a Modernist House in Mexico City, explores how discarded matter—objects, materials, and archives—can serve as agents in processes of memory and forgetting.
Mariscal’s interdisciplinary practice engages with embodied methods to investigate the imprint of memory in dwellings. Her work conceptualizes the body as the first site of habitation, extending to clothing, domestic spaces, public architecture, and urban environments expressed through photography, sculpture, sound, moving image, theatre set design, and installation. Recent research delves into entropy and architectural ruin in the Mexican context,
Her work has been exhibited internationally in both public and private institutions. Major public artworks include El Pueblo Creador (Mexican Pavilion, Expo Hannover, 2000), Innata (Atrium City Hall, The Hague, 2003), and Chez Nous (Place du Palais-Royal, Paris, 2020), among others.
Mariscal is a researcher with SPACEX-Rise (Research Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange). Her recent secondment with the programme culminated in the exhibition Sediments of Memory: Unearthing Histories beneath the Mexican Embassy in Berlin, held at the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, in July–August 2025.