Mestizx Lab

Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

Mestizx Lab is a collective and independent publishing platform founded in 2020 that brings together Latin American artists from diverse cultural backgrounds through collaborative and experimental practices. Our work focuses on zine-making, printmaking, and visual storytelling that explore identity, migration, memory, and the intersections between culture and environment.

We publish small-edition zines that combine art, research, and community voices. Our titles include Migration, Infliction of a Wound, and Sonidos del Sur — each created through collective processes involving artists, writers, collectives and musicians from South America and beyond. For the 2026 Melbourne Art Book Fair, Mestizx Lab plans to present these zines alongside new collaborative publications by emerging Latin American artists, highlighting stories, languages, and perspectives that are rarely represented in mainstream art and design publishing — such as migration experiences, Indigenous knowledge, environmental healing, and the blending of ancestral and contemporary creative practices.

At Mestizx Lab, we see publishing as a tool for connection, dialogue, and healing — a way to fight cultural erasure through creativity. Our publications are handmade, often using screen printing, drawing, and experimental photography, emphasizing tactile processes, collective creation, and the importance of preserving cultural memory through independent art publishing.