Biography
Edgar Flores, known as Saner, is a Mexican urban artist, illustrator and graphic designer born in 1981 in Mexico City. Raised between the capital and Oaxaca, his mother's home region, he absorbed the colours, myths and communal rituals of Mexican folk celebrations from an early age. He tagged his first train car in 1990, aged nine, in Mexico City's emerging graffiti scene.
A graduate in graphic design from the Universidad Autónoma de México, he developed a style rooted in pre-Hispanic iconography and Mexican folklore. His vivid murals depict human and animal figures wearing nahual masks — which, according to mythology, grant the power to transform humans into animals. His influences span comics, surrealism, naive art and advertising. Alongside his artistic practice, he taught graphic design for several years and continues to work as an art director.
Active on walls from Mexico City to Berlin and London to Barcelona, he has exhibited at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, Galerie Itinerrance with "Curanderos del alma," and the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin. His work is held in the collections of the Museo de las Americas in Denver. His pseudonym, chosen to explore the boundary between sanity and madness, reflects an approach that questions stereotypes and identities through the lens of Mexican tradition.
A graduate in graphic design from the Universidad Autónoma de México, he developed a style rooted in pre-Hispanic iconography and Mexican folklore. His vivid murals depict human and animal figures wearing nahual masks — which, according to mythology, grant the power to transform humans into animals. His influences span comics, surrealism, naive art and advertising. Alongside his artistic practice, he taught graphic design for several years and continues to work as an art director.
Active on walls from Mexico City to Berlin and London to Barcelona, he has exhibited at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, Galerie Itinerrance with "Curanderos del alma," and the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin. His work is held in the collections of the Museo de las Americas in Denver. His pseudonym, chosen to explore the boundary between sanity and madness, reflects an approach that questions stereotypes and identities through the lens of Mexican tradition.
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