Rodrigo C. Aguilera is a visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Tijuana, Mexico. His practice explores memory, human relationships, and the ways in which we construct affection, identity, and belonging through images. Interested in friendship, male relationships, and forms of intimacy that emerge through shared experience, he develops projects that examine how everyday gestures, bodies, and emotions function as living archives of individual and collective memory.

Working across photography, film, archives, and fiction, Aguilera creates narratives that move between the documentary and the imagined. His work is driven by an interest in the image as a space for encounter, one that can challenge established modes of representation and open new possibilities for reflecting on intimacy, vulnerability, and the desire for connection.

He holds a degree in Cinematography and Audiovisual Media from Observatorio Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos and a technical degree in Photography from Escuela Activa de Fotografía. He has participated in project-development programs and mentorships including Proyecto Imaginario (Argentina) and the Online Photographic Project Clinics at Centro de la Imagen. His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Mexico and Chile, and in 2023 he received the award for Best University Short Film at the Observadores del Futuro Short Film Festival.