Eva Mueller came to IMMORTAL the way some people walk into a storm: fully dressed, totally intentional, and a little thrilled by the danger.

In this new interview from IMMORTAL (Día de Muertos, CDMX), Eva (NYC) admits what a lot of us won’t say out loud: she wanted Day of the Dead her whole life—so when TBQA built a queer art fair inside that ritual season, she said count me in before the ink was dry.

And then she arrived with work that blindsided me—in the best way.

Eva’s series “Vivir Muriendo” (living while dying) was made fast (deadlines: the great queer aphrodisiac). Skeletons, skulls, six characters, all her—channeled, embodied, performed with collaborator Anna Augustin (costumes, looks, and yes… the heart). Under the camp and the spectacle is the real question: am I ready for death? And the sharper one: how do I want to live while I’m still here?

Her definition of queer is clean and deadly accurate: not a rigid binary, not just who you sleep with—an umbrella of identity, tribe, home, and freedom. The opposite of “straight” isn’t “gay.” It’s permission.

Also: she’s wearing a giant bone-phallus in the interview, so please don’t pretend this is a tasteful PBS moment. This is queer culture. It has teeth. And props.

Now live on Substack (video + feature), Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and our socials.

And yes—we’re inviting new artists into 2026.
Zona Rosa home base. Expanded CDMX residency. Low-residency options. Robust exhibitions schedule.
If your work is bold, intimate, weird, spiritual, political, comedic, tender—or all of the above—apply. Bring your evolving creature self. We’re building rooms where you can actually become.

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Briheda didn’t come to Mexico City to “show work.” She came to close a chapter.

In this new interview from IMMORTAL (Día de Muertos, CDMX), Briheda—traveling in from Belize—drops the kind of truth that makes a room go quiet: before she arrived, she was literally digging her own grave as an act of rebellion and self-celebration. Not metaphor. Dirt. Shovel. Ritual.

And then: the pivot. The rebirth. The cleansing. The release of residue.

Her paintings hold a dialogue with her ancestors and a living archive of the mind learning forgiveness—one version of self at a time: inner child, teenager, twenty-something… all brought to the grave, all finally allowed to feel. Because in her world, feeling emotion is a radical act. Trauma is rumination. Healing is growth. Art is the evidence.

She says queer is simple: freedom to be yourself. No rules.
She says community is the mirror: the place we’re seen, where we stop crying silently, where the work turns into hope inside the dark.

This is why TBQA exists. Not to decorate walls. To build rooms where people become more alive.

Now live on Substack (video + feature), Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and our socials.

And yes—we’re inviting new artists into 2026.
Exhibitions. CDMX residency. Low-residency options. Zona Rosa home base.
If your work is a portal, a prayer, a rebellion, a mirror—apply. We’re building a year that doesn’t whisper.

Follow Briheda: @brihedahaylockvisions
And stay close—this collaboration is continuing.

Video by @xuanrios

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Courtney came to IMMORTAL nervous. Not about the quality. About the cultural gravity of what he was bringing into the room.

And then he did the thing great artists do: he stopped trying to “get it right” and started trying to be true.

In this new interview, Courtney (@absalom_fineart) talks about the pivot that changed everything—how soul-searching and Mexican heritage collided with his ballet background (Swan Lake, the one he never got to dance), and how he rewrote that story into a darkly romantic, Día de Muertos–charged legend: lovers, a trickster, bird-into-man transformation, intimacy, and that classic queer ache where beauty and death hold hands a little too tightly.

Then there’s the part that hits: walking into the first queer art fair in Mexico City and feeling “overwhelming” in the best way—because when queer community is actually assembled, the room starts to breathe. It gets organic. It gets real. It gets… dangerous to your old excuses.

This one is about cross-cultural flow, trust, and the moment the work stops being “content” and becomes a mirror.

Now streaming on:
Substack (written feature + video), Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and right here on our socials.

And yes—we’re recruiting.
TBQA is building the 2026 season (Art Week / Pride / Día de Muertos). If you make work that risks tenderness, risks pleasure, risks truth—apply. We don’t need perfect. We need alive.

Apply link in bio.

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Jaimes Mayhew doesn’t make “maps.” They make portals.

In this short interview from IMMORTAL, Mayhew talks about queer and trans mapping as something way more alive than coordinates and gridlines: a practice built from trust, workshops, inside jokes, conflict, tenderness, and the radical act of imagining together. Their maps don’t say “you are here.” They say: we could be elsewhere—if we build it.

Mayhew’s whole method is collective: start with a room full of people asking deceptively simple questions—What do we need? What do we desire? Who belongs?—then distill those answers into landscapes that refuse perfection. Because perfection is usually just the old world wearing a new wig.

The big idea: utopia isn’t a destination. It’s a rehearsal. A group practice. A messy draft you revise with others. Over and over.

Want the full deep-dive? The longer-format interview is live as:

• TBQA Podcast (full conversation)

• TBQA Substack (written feature + video interview)

This is queer futurity with glue sticks, scissors, and guts.

TBQA / The Bureau of Queer Art
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At IMMORTAL, Eva Mueller didn’t offer one self — she offered six. Six characters, six emotional frequencies, six ways of refusing the flattening of queer identity.

In her interview, she introduces them like a cast of inner revolutionaries.

Vani Dada, eternally vain and unbothered by time.

Paloma Escura, the freedom fighter who eats small minds for breakfast.

Don Doble, the bisexual joke of patriarchy who answers to no one.

Lola Contessa, the horror slut reveling in her own glorious excess.

Cucu the Clown, because absurdity is sometimes the only honest language left.

And her homage to Frida and La Catrina — a flaming heart, a lineage of pain, and a new body pattern that rewards those willing to really look.

If you know Mueller’s history — from Gender Fuck to the emotional architecture of WOE — you know she’s never chasing polish. She chases truth. What she brought to IMMORTAL wasn’t WOE; it was a fresh constellation of selves born from that same refusal to hide.

These aren’t “characters” so much as survival strategies. Mirrors. Permissions. Proof that queer identity is not a single line but a whole unruly chorus fighting to be seen.

This is the spirit that drives TBQA into 2026: multiplicity, invention, artists who break form rather than shrink to fit it. If you’re building work that lives in that territory — the charged, the strange, the unguarded — TBQA’s residencies and exhibitions are opening their doors again soon. Start thinking about what you want to bring into the room.

IMMORTAL 2025 gave us Mueller’s six selves. 2026 is wide open for whatever you’re becoming next.

Video by @xuanrios

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Vicki Khuzami doesn’t tiptoe into queer art — she cartwheels in with boys, toys, humor, and a collector’s hunger that borders on mythic.

Vicki Khuzami no entra de puntitas al arte queer — entra dando volteretas, con muchachos, juguetes, humor y un hambre de coleccionar que roza lo mítico.

In this interview excerpt, she walks us through her world: tiny erotic drawings, the House of Dolores series, and her beloved cabinet of curiosities that eventually became The Octopusa — a self-portrait in eight arms grabbing every object that sparks joy, desire, or trouble.

En este fragmento de entrevista, nos lleva por su mundo: pequeños dibujos eróticos, la serie de la Casa de Dolores y su gabinete de curiosidades que terminó convirtiéndose en La Octopusa — un autorretrato de ocho brazos recolectando todo lo que enciende alegría, deseo o travesura.

Boys, eroticism, camp, romance-novel covers, gogo-boy ex-husbands… Vicki folds it all in.

Chicos, erotismo, camp, portadas de novelas románticas, ex-esposos gogo… Vicki lo mezcla todo.

And somehow it all lands exactly where queer art thrives: the sweet spot between innocence and heat.

Y de alguna manera aterriza justo donde el arte queer respira: el punto perfecto entre la inocencia y el calor.

Khuzami shows with Soho Project Space (NYC), who joined IMMORTAL this year with their signature bite.

Khuzami expone con Soho Project Space (NYC), quienes se unieron a IMMORTAL este año con su sello inconfundible.

This interview is part of our ongoing series celebrating artists weaving the queer cosmos together — from New York to CDMX and beyond.

Esta entrevista forma parte de nuestra serie que celebra a les artistas que traman el cosmos queer — de Nueva York a CDMX y más allá.

Vicki reminds us: collect what thrills you, draw what compels you, and never apologize for loving too much.

Vicki nos recuerda: colecciona lo que te emocione, dibuja lo que te obsesione y jamás pidas disculpas por amar demasiado.

Video by @xuanrios

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Some artists work with memory like tension.

Algunxs artistas trabajan la memoria como tensión.

In IMMORTAL 2025, Leslie threads fiber, childhood, and survival.

En IMMORTAL 2025, Leslie entrelaza fibra, infancia y supervivencia.

Bodies stretched by thread — adaptation made visible.

Cuerpos estirados por hilos — la adaptación hecha visible.

Her three-dimensional boxes echo a childhood in Venezuela.

Sus cajas tridimensionales evocan una infancia en Venezuela.

A place full of water where nothing grows.

Un lugar lleno de agua donde nada crece.

Desert landscapes. Covered faces. Veils interrupting the world.

Paisajes desérticos. Rostros cubiertos. Velos que interrumpen el mundo.

A veil becomes a symbol of promises never kept.

El velo se vuelve símbolo de promesas incumplidas.

To live behind a veil is to move through distortion.

Vivir tras un velo es moverse dentro de una distorsión.

Leslie’s work lives in that tension — brutal, tender, unforgettable.

La obra de Leslie vive en esa tensión — brutal, tierna, inolvidable.

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Interested in joining TBQA in 2026?

¿Quieres unirte a TBQA en 2026?

Residencies, exhibitions, and TBQA’s

Representation Subscription Model are now open.

Residencias, exhibiciones y el

Modelo de Representación por Suscripción ya están abiertos.

TBQA 2026 Information Session

Sesión Informativa TBQA 2026

A full walkthrough of PASSPORT, LUCHADOR, and IMMORTAL II.

Un recorrido completo por PASSPORT, LUCHADOR e IMMORTAL II.

Date/Time: [Insert here]

Fecha/Hora: [Insertar aquí]

Zoom link in bio.

Enlace de Zoom en el bio.

Come with curiosity — this is where the next year begins.

Llega con curiosidad — aquí empieza el próximo año.

Video by @xuanrios

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Laura Ortiz Vega no solo crea arte—ella negocia entre mundos.

Laura Ortiz Vega doesn’t just make art—she negotiates between worlds.

Sus universos bordados y con cuentas son colisiones de lo ritual y lo Pop, de los ancestros y los punks callejeros, de lo sagrado y lo escandaloso.

Her beaded, stitched universes are collisions of ritual and Pop, ancestors and street punks, the sacred and the scandalous.

Desde IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair en CDMX hasta Dismantled Vol. 10 con Maryland Art Place en Baltimore, su obra derrumba el andamiaje del “arte alto” y el “arte bajo”, tejiendo la libertad de nuevo en la forma.From IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair in CDMX to

Dismantled Vol. 10 with Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, her work tears down the scaffolding of “high” and “low” art, weaving freedom back into form.

Cada cuenta, cada hilo, es diplomacia—una diplomacia rebelde.Every bead, every thread, is diplomacy—a riotous one.🎥 Extracto de entrevista de la serie continua de TBQA que conecta México y Estados Unidos a través de la producción cultural queer.🎥 Interview excerpt from TBQA’s ongoing series bridging Mexico and the U.S. through Queer cultural production.

Video @xuanrios

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SoHo Project Space NYC brought their signature blend of sensuality, body, and boldness to IMMORTAL — showing how art can bridge cultures, languages, and desires. Their presence reminded us that visibility is not a trend; it’s a responsibility we share across borders.

En este video, @sohoprojectspacenyc nos da la bienvenida a su exhibición en IMMORTAL, celebrando el cuerpo humano, lo erótico, lo sagrado, y el poder de crear comunidad a través del arte. Gracias por ser parte de esta historia y por ayudarnos a construir una red queer sin fronteras.

#IMMORTAL #TBQA #SoHoProjectSpaceNYC #QueerArtFair #CDMX #NYC #ArtAsRitual #QueerVisibility #EroticAsPolitical #CuerpoSagrado #GlobalQueerExchange #CommunityNotCompetition

From the heart of Mexico City, Dossier @dossier_art - sits down with The Bureau of Queer Art (TBQA) to talk about the birth of IMMORTAL, Mexico’s first Queer Art Fair.
Desde el corazón de la Ciudad de México, Dossier conversa con The Bureau of Queer Art (TBQA) sobre el nacimiento de IMMORTAL, la primera feria de arte queer en México.

Between ofrendas, bodies, and collective memory, we explore how queer art is rewriting history — not from pain, but from permanence.
Entre ofrendas, cuerpos y memorias colectivas, hablamos de cómo el arte queer está reescribiendo la historia — no desde el dolor, sino desde la permanencia.

The episode is in Spanish with English subtitles.
El episodio está en español con subtítulos en inglés.

Listen. Watch. Feel.
La inmortalidad no es un mito, es comunidad.

🎧 Now streaming on @dossier_cdmx
📍Recorded at Lisboa 46, CDMX
🎥 In collaboration with @thebureauofqueerart

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