I'm a spanish multidisciplinay artist and filmmaker currently based between Spain and the United States, where I was awarded with the Fulbrigth Fellowship for film studies at the New York Film Academy. Throughout my professional career I have experimented with different artistic media such as film, theater, curatorship and artistic mediation, developing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates creation, research and the development of critical narratives around sevaral contemporary issues.
I am particularly interested in the lines of rupture of the neoliberal condition and the capacity of art to empower communities and explore the margins of capitalist societies. My last documentary films, such as Memoirs of the Dead House (2019), The commune (2022), The Americans (2024) and Bheind the curtain (2024) dive into mental health, identity and social struggles in the context of late capitalism. I have also promote several community art projects and frameworks, and led the art platform Artefactum (2013-2013), through which I have collaborated with several cultural institutions around the world as a creative manager and curator developing projects such as The Parallel Utopia (Espacios Revelados Lima, 2021-22), Contact Zones (2019-21), Playful-Political Resistances in 90s Madrid (MNCARS, 2019) or Spectators in Residence (2019-21). I have also directed several performances and theatrical pieces, and I have extended my research with academic works and divulgative articles in magazines such as Estudis Escènics, Acta, Sin Objeto, or the collection Cuerpo de Letra.
Master's degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and MNCARS (2019), graduate of the Independent Studies Programme at MACBA (2018), and a degree in Stage Direction and Dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (2016) and Documentary Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy (2024).
I am particularly interested in the lines of rupture of the neoliberal condition and the capacity of art to empower communities and explore the margins of capitalist societies. My last documentary films, such as Memoirs of the Dead House (2019), The commune (2022), The Americans (2024) and Bheind the curtain (2024) dive into mental health, identity and social struggles in the context of late capitalism. I have also promote several community art projects and frameworks, and led the art platform Artefactum (2013-2013), through which I have collaborated with several cultural institutions around the world as a creative manager and curator developing projects such as The Parallel Utopia (Espacios Revelados Lima, 2021-22), Contact Zones (2019-21), Playful-Political Resistances in 90s Madrid (MNCARS, 2019) or Spectators in Residence (2019-21). I have also directed several performances and theatrical pieces, and I have extended my research with academic works and divulgative articles in magazines such as Estudis Escènics, Acta, Sin Objeto, or the collection Cuerpo de Letra.
Master's degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and MNCARS (2019), graduate of the Independent Studies Programme at MACBA (2018), and a degree in Stage Direction and Dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (2016) and Documentary Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy (2024).
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