Exótica is a body of work that reinterprets and follows the imaginary steps of the adventurers and explorers who undertook complex and dangerous expeditions in the "wild territories" of Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries. These expeditions led mainly to great scientific discoveries, documented in valuable chronicles and logbooks and shared around the world. Born and raised in Mexico as part of the first generation of European migrants, the author finds a direct link between these famous explorers and his own family roots. The expeditions are also related to the eternal human need to find one's own paradise, which has a wide range of interpretations: the Bible presents Paradise as a garden in which the first couple live free of disease and death; in cosmological contexts it describes the world before it was tainted by evil; in the tourism industry the exotic is a tool to escape daily routine; and in art history it has appeared in many ways, mainly as the opposite of hell.