Lives and works in Mexico City.
Although his practice is mostly recognized through photography, Habeica is a multidisciplinary artist with work that also includes video and installation.
Navigating between fine art and fashion photography for most of his career, his commercial as well as personal work have a unique and daring style, where, in addition to the minimalist settings, the color white and the presence of a large amount of light, which produce a fascinating effect. His work develops a narrative in which he shows us his reality through still and moving images. Habeica creates a story that is both probable and yet impossible to verify, like a novel, in his photographs, videos and installations we attend events of which we can only appreciate fragments, with partial views and jumps in the time that we are invited to participate in the stories that the artist tells us about his self-exile.
Beginning his career with various collective exhibitions in spaces such as the Centro de la Imagen and the Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, in the company of curators such as Guillermo Santamarina, Napoleón was one of the three artists with whom Proyectos Monclova debuted, a gallery with which he collaborated with for many years. After moving away for almost a decade from the “established” art world, Habeica returned with the solo exhibitions Hell presented at the Panteón Gallery in 2019, and Sin nombre, the first show held at SAENGER Galería in 2020. He is currently represented by SAENGER Galería.
