I am a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of relational practices, critical pedagogies, and research-based artistic practice. My work unfolds across multiple artistic media, including live arts, curatorial practice, art mediation, film, and video installation.
My practice operates as an open-ended process in which creation functions as a relational dispositif rather than as a work with fixed boundaries. I work within contexts where art intersects with everyday life and history, generating situations in which knowledge emerges from territory and shared experience. This approach informs projects that treat the stage, the public square, the screen, the page, and the gallery as pedagogical dispositifs, engaging collaborative methodologies and hybrid formats that combine performance, writing, film, photography, and archival practices.
My work unfolds as a genealogy of utopia, reflecting on the emancipatory potentials latent in the present. Utopia does not appear in my practice as an abstract ideal or a closed project, but as a method and a mode of action through which desire and fiction activate imagination as a political force capable of intervening in the real.
My practice has consistently explored the body as a (u)topic territory of resistance — La escena en curso (2013–2017); the city as a laboratory of sovereignty — Inéditos (2013–2016), Playgrounds (2019); mediation as a dispositif of collective agency — Zonas de Contacto (2019–2021), Espectadores en residencia (2019–2021); and the archive as a space for imagining futures — La utopía paralela (2021–2022), Assembly (2022).
Currently, my research focuses on the study of archives of utopia, recovering suspended narratives and unrealized projects in order to reactivate them through expanded forms of documentation, film, photography, and live arts. I explore fiction and the archive as methodologies of social design and as historical prostheses, particularly in relation to collective trauma, political memory, and colonial legacies.
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).
My practice operates as an open-ended process in which creation functions as a relational dispositif rather than as a work with fixed boundaries. I work within contexts where art intersects with everyday life and history, generating situations in which knowledge emerges from territory and shared experience. This approach informs projects that treat the stage, the public square, the screen, the page, and the gallery as pedagogical dispositifs, engaging collaborative methodologies and hybrid formats that combine performance, writing, film, photography, and archival practices.
My work unfolds as a genealogy of utopia, reflecting on the emancipatory potentials latent in the present. Utopia does not appear in my practice as an abstract ideal or a closed project, but as a method and a mode of action through which desire and fiction activate imagination as a political force capable of intervening in the real.
My practice has consistently explored the body as a (u)topic territory of resistance — La escena en curso (2013–2017); the city as a laboratory of sovereignty — Inéditos (2013–2016), Playgrounds (2019); mediation as a dispositif of collective agency — Zonas de Contacto (2019–2021), Espectadores en residencia (2019–2021); and the archive as a space for imagining futures — La utopía paralela (2021–2022), Assembly (2022).
Currently, my research focuses on the study of archives of utopia, recovering suspended narratives and unrealized projects in order to reactivate them through expanded forms of documentation, film, photography, and live arts. I explore fiction and the archive as methodologies of social design and as historical prostheses, particularly in relation to collective trauma, political memory, and colonial legacies.
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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