Inés Somellera is an interdisciplinary artist working between Mexico, Southeast Asia and New York. Her works, which she conceives as works in progress, lie at the intersection of research, exchange, collaboration, and performance. Her practice is articulated through the dislocation of the body in relation to the parameters of emotional memory and notion of time.

Her creations stem from the central concept of “Abstract Dramaturgy,” a radical structural confrontation based on the movement of the individual and the body against the parameters of time and space. This allows her to explore the emotional power of abstraction to represent events or feelings, rather than presenting them realistically. Which can be seen in works such as  Xalisco, a place (2016-2019) and Transfusion (2020).

A central focus within her performative language is the comparative study of traditional performing arts, particularly between Mexico and Indonesia In 2003, where she began researching their relationship to spirituality, an essential foundation of her conceptual work and aesthetic universe.

From 1997 to 2002, she worked in New York with Robert Wilson and participated at The Watermill Center on works such as Seventy Angels on the Facade (Milan, 1998), The Days Before: Death Destruction and Detroit III  (Lincoln Center Festival, 1999), Stanze e Secreti: Anna’s Room (2000), and Prometheus (Athens, 2001). In New York, Inés co-founded The South Wing Theater Company (USA–Argentina–Mexico) and was an active collaborator with Magnetic Laboratorium, a collective of artists based in the city that produced multidisciplinary performances in public spaces.

Her projects include Hari Ini (Indonesia, 2007), the documentary Takdir (2005), the book Hints (2008), Xalisco, a place (2016–2019), Transfusion (2020), and RE[MEMBRAR] (2022–2027). Inés is a co-founder of ESAS (Empu Sendok Arts and Science), an interdisciplinary and transcultural platform for social arts, science, research, and exchange based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Guadalajara, Mexico. Within ESAS, she serves as Artistic Director of the Beyond Arts program and has collaborated on, produced, and founded a range of contemporary dance-theatre projects, choreographic co-creation processes, and abstract dramaturgy works, building bridges for international collaboration across the region.

She is currently developing RE[MEMBRAR], a multi-year project structured as six events and a finale. The project is grounded in a pain map linked to the Coyolxauhqui (the aztec moon goddess), and it creates spaces for collective transformation where new forms of knowledge around identity can emerge, reframing our relationship to history and language and opening a portal of memory through a process of recovery and reconstruction of the dismembered parts of our body-territory, giving them new meaning, while unleashing feminine wisdom.

In 2023, she was recognized by the IME as a Distinguished Mexican. In addition to her artistic practice, since 2025 she directs and curates Casa Torre in Guadalajara, a contemporary art and performance space interested in developing community based methodologies for local and international artists.