Mexican photographer Alejandro Ramírez Orozco has directed and curated a project that captures a variety of design objects within architecturally diverse spaces across Mexico.

For the Remanencias project, Ramírez Orozco chose 14 Mexico-based designers to each create an original piece of furniture, lighting or sculpture.

Federico Stefanovich's Salina floor lamp at Casa Puertecito

The items were then taken to four newly completed houses – each designed by a different architect and located in a different climate – to be temporarily installed and photographed.

"Remanencias names that which persists after the encounter — what remains when the moment itself has already ceased to exist," said Ramírez Orozco. "The minimal record of an ephemeral dialogue between object and architecture."

Federico Stefanovich's Salina floor lamp at Casa Puertecito

The pieces ranged from Deceres Studio's Arka credenza and Imanol Ortíz's folding screen, to Habitación 116's Pampa Chair and Ombia Studio's Dos Cruces Chair.

Lighting designs included a floor lamp by Federico Stefanovich, a candle chandelier by Alan Rojas, a sconce by Erm Studio and a table lamp by Estudio Sardina.

Habitación 116's Pampa Chair, Disciplina Studio's Ceramic Object and Manu Bañó's OBJ-06 side table at Casa Entre los Árboles

Rather than simply documenting the objects or the architecture, the goal was to capture the bond between them both and highlight how the objects interacted differently with the varied environments, as well as one another.

"Each object was conceived not as an autonomous form, but as a body designed to relate, adapt, and be activated in conjunction with others and with the architectural space that receives it," said Ramírez Orozco.

"At each location, photographic sessions are carried out in which the objects are placed, adapted, and temporarily inhabit the architecture, generating specific compositions that respond to the qualities of the site: light, scale, shadows, textures, and voids," he continued.

Imanol Ortíz's folding screen at Casa Tierra

The first location was Casa Puertecito in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, which was designed by Goma Taller and features a giant concrete staircase that faces the ocean up one side.

Here, the objects were positioned on the steps and inside the sand-toned rooms, where the light cast dramatic shadows from the building's geometric shapes.

Alan Rojas's Miles Davis Candle Chandelier at Casa Tierra

The second, Aires Mateus and Ignacio Urquiza's Casa Entre los Árboles in Valle de Bravo, includes a scalloped-edge platform on which the furniture pieces were placed.

In Jalisco, textured plaster walls below the gabled roof of Casa Tierra by Aagnes and César Béjar provided the setting, while in Mérida, Casa Ínsula's sculptural concrete volumes acted as containers and frames for the objects.

"Each object settles, adapts, and inhabits the architecture for a brief, almost imperceptible moment before disappearing from that place forever," Ramírez Orozco said.

An exhibition of the photographs, also titled Remanencias, was mounted alongside a display of the objects at the Difane gallery in Roma Norte, during Mexico City art week in February 2026.

Estudio Sardina's Tlatelolco Lamp at Casa Mérida

The images were framed in metal by Manu Bañó – who also contributed a floor lamp and side table to the project – while the 14 pieces were placed on a low platform in the centre of the room.

"Viewers were invited to move through the photographic series while recognising, relating to, and rediscovering each object within the images, mentally reconstructing its journey through the different architectural spaces," said Ramírez Orozco.

Other highlights from Mexico City art week included the Unique Design X Mexico City showcase, a series of lighting created from discarded shells by David Pompa, and a "sculptural tableau of light" by Lee Broom.

Dezeen also rounded up the best exhibitions and installation from this year's event.

The photography is by Alejandro Ramírez Orozco.