STATEMENT
I have been awarded my PhD in Art: Production and Research from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), having obtained Cum Laude and International Mention. During my PhD research, I spent three months as visiting fellow at the Centre for Cultural Memory Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
My thesis “The artwork as a countermonument. Representation of antiheroic memory as a resource in contemporary art” (625 pages) explored the theory and practice of contemporary art, as well as their relation to Cultural Memory studies. Here I analysed the methods of memory used in contemporary art by twenty-two artists from a range of Western countries. Their artworks contribute to transmitting the current concern on memory and to questioning the traditional idea of History as something fixed and unalterable.
I have presented my research at conferences in the UK, Croatia, Netherlands, Germany and Spain. Currently I am working on a personal art project and on a series of articles based on my thesis, which I plan to publish in The Journal of Cultural Memory Studies and The Journal of Art History.
TALKS
– Memory of the Present. Antiheroic Versions of Spanish Recent History As a Resource in Contemporary Art. University of Valladolid, Spain. Nov. 2017.
– Resistance Through Contemporary Art Dealing with Memory. King’s College, University of London. June 2017
– (In)visibility as aesthetic strategy in counter-monuments and contemporary artworks dealing with memory. Conference: (In)Visible Cultures. King’s College London. June 2016.
– The spectator’s experiences of time. Memory, history and temporality in counter-monuments and contemporary artworks. Conference: Space, Identities and Memory. Birkbeck University of London. May 2016.
– The spectator’s experiences of time. Memory, history and temporality in counter-monuments and contemporary artworks. International Symposium: Spatiality and Temporality. Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, Warsaw, Poland. April 2016.
– ‘Pacts of Forgetting’. Contemporary Art Responses to Collective Amnesia in Spain and Lebanon. Conference: Places of Amnesia. Cambridge University. April 2016.
– The artwork as countermonument. Nazi period commemoration and memory in contemporary art. Conference: Shared Spaces, Shared Memories, Shared Visions: Contemporary Visual Representations of the Second World War in German Cities. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne. November 2015.
– Contemporary Artworks as Platform of Memory. From Analogue Resources of Memory to Digital Art Display: Walid Raad. Conference: Changing Platforms of Memory Practices. Technologies, User Generations and Amateur Media Dispositives. Faculty of Arts, History department, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. September 2015.
– Representation of nostalgia and melancholy in contemporary artworks: Tacita Dean and Louise Bourgeois. Conference: Memory, Nostalgia, Melancholy. Re-imagining home in a time of mobility. School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University. Rovinj, Croatia. September 2015.
– Reconfiguring past through memory and fiction in contemporary art. Tacita Dean and Francesc Torres. Workshop: Reconfiguring Ruins, University of London and The NewBridge Project. Newcastle, June 2015.
– Presentation of research and artistic personal project. Languages and techniques of artistic production. Fine Arts School, University of Salamanca, February, 2011.
– Family memory at the audiovisual artwork. The private into the public. Institute of media studies, University of Bochum, Germany. November, 2010.