Alex Amir Khan is a designer, artist, and researcher working between Switzerland, Mexico, and Brazil. At the intersection of visual arts, design, traditional crafts, and historical research, he approaches his work with a holistic, decolonizing, and intersectional perspective, grounded in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange. Since 2013, his fascination with natural latex has shaped his artistic and material practice.
Since 2022, Khan has focused on innovatively combining natural latex with textiles, organic fibers, natural dyes, and other biomaterials, particularly through extensive projects in Mexico and Brazil. Central to his practice is the co-creation with communities—facilitating collaborative exploration, participatory projects, and open knowledge exchange.
He collaborates with the IfTF – Institut für Textiles Forschen Basel and leads workshops to empower others in these fields. In 2024, Khan received an award for material development, enabling the advancement of LATX Biomaterials.
In 2025, he co-founded the HeveaHub project with Katia Fagundes in Brazil, fostering new forms of creative expression and knowledge-sharing around natural rubber. Alongside, he continues research and prepares an exhibition with Museo Textil in Oaxaca, exploring connections between traditional Mexican rainwear and innovative latex applications.
Artist Statement
“Khan works at the intersection of aesthetic creativity, traditional craftsmanship, material development, and historical research. By blending organic and mineral pigments with liquid latex, he creates unique artworks, series, and performances, incorporating textiles, natural fibers, and biomaterials. His creations represent a synthesis of the aforementioned fields, blended with their journey as an individual in constant flux between countries, cultures, people, languages, and above all, emotions. The artifact of these internal and external processes manifests in various forms, serving as an intimate personal window into Khan's emotional world. The goal is to utilize artistic skills to discover new pathways and, through transformation and decontextualization of materials, to perceive things differently, evoke emotions, and break social-, gender-, and cultural related boundaries.”
