Alexis Mata is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Mexico City. With a background rooted in interventions in urban space, Mata has navigated a wide range of media, including collage, drawing, painting, installation, and digital art. Thus, beyond the diversity of formal resources, his work remains permeated by a strong social and political charge. In his practice, we find recurring references to death, violence, beauty, and the exaltation of Manichean ideas of a once-prosperous yet simultaneously corrosive past. Mata investigates aesthetics through visual archetypes and, through the practice of error—cuts, glitches, pixelation—creates new images born from the fracture of specific classics, in an exercise that takes collage from the formal realm into the realm of copyright. These works juxtapose images and acts of self-reflection that question beauty and its representation through an analog–digital–analog process in media such as photography, printmaking, and painting.