Born in 1970, he lives and works in Mexico City. 

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Santiago Borja's work lies between art, architecture and anthropology. Because his approach is based on these three disciplines, he succeeds in establishing unexpected or unexplored connections based on subjective associations.

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For his residency project, Santiago Borja has invested the space of the workshop by installing a complex wooden structure, covered by a wool carpet.

 

This structure was conceived from the totemic connections of filiation symbolized by the diagram "Totemic Operator", published in Claude Levi-Strauss's book "La pensée Sauvage" (1962).

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With the installation of this installation in the workshop, Santiago Borja also induces a cultural telescoping with the carpet. Made as part of an ancestral weaving practice, the motifs on this carpet are taken from a repertoire of traditional Mexican shapes and colours, 

associated with those developed by the Bauhaus weaving workshops at the beginning of the 20th century.