Skyline Lofts Gallery

Mikiztli comes from Nahuatl and means death, understood not merely as an end but as transformation and continuity. In ancestral cosmovision, it is a sacred sign that connects with the cycles of life, memory, and rebirth.

“Collided Emotions”

This exhibition is born from the silence imposed by fear.

From the scream that cannot come out.

From the loss that has yet to find comfort.Collided Emotions is a body of work that is deeply personal—and deeply collective. Esteban Barrón turns painting into an

emotional refuge, a space where trauma, grief, and the echoes of violence are rendered through faces, gestures, and

fragmented bodies.

These works are not meant to be beautiful—they are meant to be honest. They do not aim to please, but to endure.

Here, emotions are not tamed: they scream, shake, distort, dissolve, or harden. Each face holds the emotional weight of

what was witnessed, suffered, or taken. There is rage, fear, mourning... but also truth, empathy, and humanity.

In a reality where speaking out can cost your life, Barrón paints as an act of survival, memory, and emotional resistance.

Each painting says: “Something happened here. We are still feeling.”