Alex Amir Khan is a designer, artist, and researcher working between Switzerland, Mexico, and Brazil. Operating across art, design, and material research, his practice examines the intersections of craft, ecology, and technology through a critical and decolonial lens. Since 2013, a sustained curiosity for natural latex has driven his exploration of material culture and transformation — positioning his work within a dialogue between aesthetic inquiry, social context, and embodied experimentation.
Since 2022, Khan has developed a contemporary material language around natural latex, merging it with textiles, organic fibers, natural dyes, and other biomaterials through collaborations in Mexico, Brazil, and Switzerland. His work centers on co-creation and collective knowledge, bridging design, craft, and ecology.
In Switzerland, he works with the IfTF – Institut für Textiles Forschen Basel and leads workshops exploring new forms of material practice. In 2024, he received a material development award, supporting the evolution of LATX Biomaterials.
In 2025, Khan co-founded HeveaHub with Katia Fagundes and co-curated an exhibition at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca, highlighting the dialogue between traditional Mexican rainwear and contemporary latex applications. Extending through 2026, HeveaHub fosters a transcontinental exchange between Switzerland, Mexico, and Brazil—a multidisciplinary platform for material research, cultural dialogue, and collaborative making.
Artist Statement
“My work explores how natural latex, pigments and textiles behave, transform and carry knowledge. Through long-term collaborations in Brazil, Mexico and Switzerland, I treat materials as living systems shaped by climate, gesture and shared expertise.
Each piece emerges from experimental processes that merge visual art with material investigation, tracing how surfaces, forms and colours evolve through making. By reworking field-based techniques within contemporary studio contexts, I develop a visual language that connects material culture, ecological relations and artistic inquiry.”
