La Fábrica Subin
Yucatán, México
A place of transformation
La Fábrica Subin emerges from a former henequen factory beside Hacienda Subin 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.
Founders
Laura Kirar & Tiffany Meesha Thompson
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.
A longstanding friendship between Kirar and Tiffany Meesha Thompson grew into a partnership dedicated to the factory's cultural future. Their distinct international practices come together here, Kirar through the creation of objects, environments, experiences and production, Thompson through cultural strategy, curatorial vision, and artistic programming.
Kirar is an artist, designer, creative director, and entrepreneur whose three-decade practice crosses disciplines and scales. Her work moves between sculpture, installation, immersive performance, collectible design, architecture, and hospitality, extending from individual objects to environments and the transformation of entire places. Deeply influenced by Mexico and its 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.
Thompson is the founder of Petrichor Projects, a cultural strategy and curatorial practice that uses art and culture to shape how places are experienced. Working globally, she leads ambitious initiatives across a range of contexts and scales, developing cultural strategies, curating exhibitions and programs, and commissioning artists for projects ranging from intimate encounters to monumental works. Her practice brings art into conversation with architecture, landscape, hospitality, and public life, creating connections that contribute to the identity and cultural life of a place.
At La Fábrica Subin, Kirar and Thompson bring their practices together to lead its artistic vision and curatorial direction, establishing the factory as an evolving cultural space for experimentation, exchange, and discovery.
