Alina Peña Iguarán is a research professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, and a member of the National System of Researchers, level I. D. from Boston University, she specialized in war, memory and subjectivity in the narrative of the Mexican Revolution. She did her postdoctoral research on art and border at El Colef, in Tijuana, entitled “Poéticas de las excedencias”. She is currently working on the tensions at the crossroads between aesthetic practices, politics and social action in contexts of violence, disappearance and migration. She is a member of the Hemispheric Encounters network and the International Network for the Study of the Gaze. Member of the working group Intemperie. She has recently published “Las políticas de la interpretación: pautas para abordar la relación entre estética, política y comunicación”, in Mauricio Andión Gamboa and Dana Arrieta Barraza (coords.) (2024). The image and time. Looks at the thought of Diego Lizarazo; with Patricio Azócar Donoso (2023). “Intemperie: políticas de la voluntad y poéticas del cobijo”, Etcetera. Journal of the Social Sciences Areas of CIFFYH(12); and also with Patricio Azócar Donoso (2024). “Inclemencia, cobijo y agenciamiento”, ArteFactos. Mexico City: UNAM/CISAN, pp. 297-320. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9159-2106