La Fábrica Subin
Yucatán, México
A place of transformation
La Fábrica Subin emerges from a former henequen factory beside Hacienda Subín in Yucatán, Mexico, where a new period of art and cultural life is taking form.
The ground carries a longer history. Traces of Maya structures remain in the surrounding terrain, where ruins, vegetation, architecture, and contemporary life coexist.
Exhibitions, performances, film, music, literature, conversation and the culinary arts unfold across the site, bringing different ways of seeing, thinking, and experiencing the world into proximity.
Artists, thinkers, and audiences come to see art, exchange ideas, eat, listen, question, and discover. What happens here grows from these encounters and from the particular experience of being in this place.
Founder
Laura Kirar
La Fábrica Subin began with Laura Kirar's vision for the former factory at Hacienda Subin, which she and Richard Frazier have restored and reimagined since encountering the property in ruins in 2009. As co-owners of Hacienda Subin and the former factory, they have guided the site's restoration and continuing evolution.
Kirar is an internationally recognized artist, designer, and creative director whose three-decade practice crosses disciplines and scales, occupying the intersection of fine art, architecture, and collectible design. Her work moves between sculpture, installation, immersive performance, collectible design, architecture, hospitality, furniture, lighting, textiles, and limited-edition objects, extending from individual objects to environments and the transformation of entire places.
Deeply influenced by extensive travel, particularly throughout Mexico, and a lifelong reverence for artisanal traditions, Kirar works through material, craftsmanship, symbolism, and beauty to create objects and environments rich in texture, history, and emotion. Across her practice, she explores how objects, spaces, and experiences shape perception, memory, and everyday life, guided by the belief that true luxury lies not in excess, but in authenticity, craftsmanship, and timeless design.
At La Fábrica Subin, Kirar continues to shape the factory's artistic vision and ongoing evolution, establishing it as an evolving cultural space for experimentation, exchange, and discovery.
Collaborators
Carolina Alvarez-Mathies
Liaison & Curatorial Contributor
Carolina M. Alvarez-Mathies is a cultural strategist and producer working across contemporary art, design, gastronomy, and community. She serves as Senior Director of Institutional Relations at OMR and Artistic Director of LagoAlgo in Mexico City, where she develops exhibitions, partnerships, and initiatives connecting Mexican and international creative communities. Previously, she was Executive Director of Dallas Contemporary, Director of External Affairs at Creative Time, and Head of Communications at El Museo del Barrio in New York.
Born in El Salvador, Alvarez-Mathies brings an international, cross-disciplinary perspective to cultural production, fostering dialogue between art, institutions, and public life. She served as El Salvador’s Ambassador on Special Mission for Cultural Affairs from 2017 to 2019 and sits on the Advisory Board of Y.ES Contemporary, supporting artists from El Salvador and its diaspora. Her work has also extended to international art juries and selection committees, including the 2026 Venice Biennale Panama Pavilion.
Petrichor Projects | Tiffany Meesha Thompson, EMBA
Founding Cultural Strategist
Tiffany Meesha Thompson developed La Fábrica Subín’s cultural strategy, establishing its foundational principles, cultural identity, intellectual character, and public narrative. For Exquisite Encrucijada, the 2026–2027 inaugural program, she created the interpretive framework that brought its artists, works, and ideas into dialogue, and developed the foundational language through which the program was presented.
Thompson is the founder of Petrichor Projects, an international cultural strategy and curatorial practice working at the intersection of art, place, and human experience. Her work considers how culture shapes the way we understand and inhabit the world, bringing contemporary art into dialogue with architecture, landscape, hospitality, and public life. Working across scales, from intimate encounters to monumental artist commissions, she approaches art as a means of shifting perception, creating connection, and expanding what a place can make possible.