Alejandro Chellet is a Mexican performance artist, curator, and cultural activist whose interdisciplinary practice navigates the intersections of food systems, ritual, hospitality, and environmental politics. With a Master’s degree in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy, Chellet’s work interrogates the dynamics of coexistence, post-pandemic rural-urban migration, and ecological regeneration. Drawing from permaculture, shamanic traditions, and social practice, his performances and participatory projects explore food as a living archive and political act, transforming meals, foraging, and communal gatherings into ephemeral acts of resistance and radical care. Chellet’s long-standing research investigates Radical Hospitality as a methodology for collective healing, cultural critique, and social engagement within artist residencies, rural communities, and contested territories.
FOOD = ART = LIFE |
His work has been presented internationally across Europe, North America, and Latin America in galleries, farms, forests, festivals, and public spaces. Recent projects include performances and video installations developed through residencies in Norway, Estonia, the Hudson Valley, and Mexico, alongside ongoing collaborations around food sovereignty, bio-cultural memory, and trans-local artistic networks.
Chellet is the founder of Casa Viva Gallery in Mexico City and co-founder of Rosekill Art Farm in New York. His practice embodies a deep commitment to reclaiming Art as a Life practice, where gestures of nourishment, belonging, and resistance converge. |
Their work in Mexico City began in 2009 co-founding an urban agriculture collective named Cualti Mexico actively engaged in regenerative agriculture in the protected Natural Area of Xochimilco and responsible for creating one of the first farm-to-table markets in the city called Mercado Alternativo de Tlalpan.
