STUDIO 84 PRESENTS INNER STAGE WITH UNNO GALLERY, CC-TAPIS AND 6:AM, BRIDGING DESIGN AND PERFORMING ARTS FOR MeXICO ART WEEK 2026
Mexico City, February 2026
Studio 84, the Mexican design retailer founded by Maria Dolores Uribe, returns to Mexico City Art Week 2026, with Inner Stage, a site-specific exhibition and performance. The project takes place at the Escuela del Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández, one of Mexico’s most emblematic cultural institutions—designed by Agustín Hernández Navarro and dedicated since the late 1960s to the professional training of dancers and the preservation of folkloric traditions.
The exhibition brings together works by UNNO Gallery, the Mexico-based platform championing contemporary Latin American design founded by María Dolores Uribe, with designers Alana Burns, Lucía Echavarría, and Andrea Vargas Dieppa, alongside pieces by cc-tapis, presenting a new color in the Whispers collection by Scarlett Rouge and an exclusive Sabine Marcelis piece at a private residence by the same architect. 6:AM will showcase 1/1/1 sculpture series, ULTRAS,[QUADRATO], and [EXIT] collections alongside other pieces of the brand. All works are activated through a site-specific performance directed by Mexican artist Mauricio Ascencio.
Presented on a theatre stage, the exhibition draws the private realm into public view. The works explore femininity through intimate spaces associated with retreat, contemplation, and pause, as well as through the objects that inhabit them. Positioned between tradition and contemporaneity, the pieces examine how design mediates between necessity and desire, shaping both emotional experience and material presence. Inspired by the figure of the “New Woman” of the late 1920s, the performance articulates femininity through purposeful actions, tactile materials, and carefully selected objects.
The short-duration performative intervention (8–12 minutes) brings together body, sound, and space and is performed by four intergenerational female folkloric dancers and three musicians from the Banda Mixteca de Santa Cecilia. Through sonic abstraction, the performance unfolds in two consecutive moments, activating the site through minimal, everyday gestures and an atemporal soundscape. The dancers interact with the designers’ pieces, revealing femininity as a force of exchange, capable of receiving, sustaining, and transforming. Guided by sound, the audience becomes part of a subtle choreography, shifting the experience from representation to shared sensory presence. A third, autonomous sound layer extends throughout the exhibition as a durational murmur derived from a deconstructed folkloric rehearsal, activating the memory of the architecture and unifying body, sound, and space.
Lucía Echavarría presents an imagined dressing room crafted from Colombian and Mexican textiles, where woven belts, huipiles, and beads are transformed into screens, mirrors, furniture, and lamps. Andrea Vargas Dieppa contributes contemplative objects, including a bathtub and a rocking chair, while Alana Burns presents a handcrafted daybed conceived as a personal and meditative space for rest, imagination, and memory.
For cc-tapis, Scarlett Rouge presents Whispers, from a Midnight Kiss, a piece reflecting on cycles of life, death, and rebirth through a mystical material language. Sabine Marcelis presents cc-tapis new product developed through Made in Milan with the brand’s in-house prototyping hub. 6:AM presents 1/1/1, a sculptural series in handblown Murano glass and marble, showcased alongside the ULTRAS, [QUADRATO], and [EXIT] collections, as well as other pieces of the brand. Works that explore color, geometry, and light through artisanal glassmaking, showcasing experimentation and contemporary design.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Dates: 2 – 4 February, 2026
Location: Escuela del Ballet Folklórico de México, Mexico City
Hosted by: Studio84mx
ABOUT PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS AND STUDIOS
About UNNO Gallery
Founded in 2021 by María Dolores Uribe, UNNO Gallery is a nomadic platform dedicated to contemporary Latin American collectible design. Through site-specific exhibitions and participation in major international fairs including ZONA MACO, Milan Design Week, and PAD Paris. UNNO Gallery amplifies the voices of Latin American designers on a global stage.
Alana Burns – Mexico
She works across sculpture, encaustic painting, textiles, and poetic interventions on found objects. Her practice is rooted in memory, transformation, and nature, often shaped through the fluidity of wax. Burns collaborates closely with artisans to translate ephemeral gestures into contemplative, tactile forms.
Andrea Vargas Dieppa – Colombia
Her work bridges artisanal mastery and contemporary aesthetics through works made with fossilized tropical vines, wood mosaics, copper, freshwater shells, and German silver. Her collectible design pieces reinterpret ancestral techniques through a sustainable and poetic lens, addressing themes of identity, belonging, and transformation
Lucia Echavarría – Colombia / Mexico
Working between Bogotá, Paris, and Mexico, Lucia Echavarría approaches design through an art-historical and material culture perspective. Founder of Magnetic Midnight Maison, she reinterprets traditional Colombian techniques into contemporary furniture and home objects that sit between heritage and Experimentation.
cc-tapis
Founded in Milan in 2011, cc-tapis redefines contemporary rug-making through a deep commitment to traditional hand-knotting craftsmanship. During Mexico city Art Week 2026, presents a curated selection of cc-tapis collections, including Whispers by Scarlett Rouge and Roll by Sabine Marcelis unveiled for the first time.Together, these works explore the expressive and architectural potential of textile surfaces, balancing material rigor with artistic experimentation.
6:AM Glassworks
Founded in 2018 by Edoardo Pandolfo and Francesco Palù, 6:AM is a Milan-based design brand rooted in the heritage of Murano glassmaking and driven by material experimentation. During Mexico City Art Week 2026, Studio 84 presents works from the 1/1/1 series alongside the ULTRAS, [QUADRATO], and [EXIT] collections, offering a broader view of the brand’s research into glass, light, and geometry.
Mauricio Ascencio
Mexican designer and creative director whose practice operates at the intersection of the performing arts, spatial design, and artistic research. His work explores the relationship between body, space, and perception, understanding design as a tool for activating sensorial experiences and collective forms of engagement. His practice investigates the notion of landscape and contemplation through multiple territories of experience, including the body, space, light, time, and action. He has developed projects for dance, theatre, and multidisciplinary events, integrating artisanal processes, scenographic devices, and site-specific strategies.
