Iván Barrera is a visual artist whose practice encompasses collage, painting, and drawing techniques through which he interweaves urban aesthetics, pop nostalgia, queer experience, and an intimate eroticism. With a background in visual communication and experience in editorial design and fashion, Barrera has developed a self-taught approach to the plastic arts.Collage stands as a central axis of his production: it operates as a metaphor for constructed identities, questioning fixed conceptions of Mexicanidad and addressing themes of masculinity, the body, and representation through a queer lens. His work proposes alternative readings of Mexican identity, queerness, and other hegemonic values imposed within a context of ongoing cultural transformation.