Bio [Eng]
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My artistic practice investigates embodiment as a dynamic material that is activated in the encounter between gesture, ritual and ecosystem. Through processes that rehearse different layers of production, such as continuity of action, work with performance, photography, writing and editorial experiences. This making connects memories, imaginaries, somatics and affects, weaving links between the personal, the collective and the environment.
I am interested in inhabiting a continuous artistic practice that allows sharing, exploring and creating ways of doing together with other people and in dialogue with what surrounds us.
ROMA VAQUERO DIAZ
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She was born in Pergamino (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 1982.
She is a visual and performance artist.
She holds a degree in Performing Arts from Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Master in Combined Artistic Languages from Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor of Dance Arts – Corporal Expression from the Theatre School of Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
From 2008 to date she has trained in performance, somatic, photography, video, sound, movement and writing with Julyen Hamilton, Maricel Álvarez, Fabiana Capriotti, Marie Bardet, Andrea Soto Calderón, Diana Szeinblum, Valeria Sestua, Itziar Okariz, Ananké Asseff, VIvi Tellas, Adriana Bustos, Gabriela Halac, Andrea Fernández, Verónica Condomi, Silvia Mamana, Mónica Mayer, Natalia Romero, Verónica Ruth Frías, Marcela Fuentes, Alan Courtis and Juan Carlos Romero, among others.
She participated in the Art, bioaesthetics and environmentalism clinic coordinated by Pablo La Padula at MUNTREF, Buenos Aires in 2024; she participated in the PROGRAMME FOR ARTISTS Manglar 2023 at Acéfala Gallery coordinated by Andrés Labake and the PAC 2021 Project coordinated by Gachi Prieto Gallery.
Residencies: Manta, Aluminé, Neuquén, Argentine (2024); Curator, Santa Fe, Argentine (2023); Raíces, Catamarca, Argentine (2022); R.A.R.O. Madrid, Spain (2022); Escuchar la fotografía- Galería Artexarte, Buenos Aires, Argentine (2021); La Flecha, Capitán Sarmiento, Buenos Aires (2020 – 2019); Originario, Cura Malal, Buenos Aires (2018).
She had the following solo exhibitions: How many bodies go into one body, curated by Lucía Seijo, Galería Olla Roja, Buenos Aires (2022); We are not territory of conquest, curated by Margarita García Faure, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Pettoruti, La Plata (2019); “The Made Thing”, Museo de la ciudad, Pergamino (2012); and “The Madething”, Museo de la ciudad, Pergamino (2012).
Her recent projects were exhibited at Museo de Bellas Artes Lola Mora, (Salta, Argentina); Cameron Art Museum (North Carolina, United States); Acéfala Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Museo del libro y de la lengua (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Can Basté (Barcelona, Spain), Centro de Arte Maristany (Barcelona, Spain), Quinta del sordo (Madrid, Spain); Galería Gachi Prieto (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Centro Cultural Kirchner (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Cherry Street Pier (Philadelphia, USA); Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes (La Plata, Argentina); Espacio Idea MEC (Montevideo, Uruguay); Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Museo Jacobo Borges (Caracas, Venezuela); Centro Cultural San Martín (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She has participated in several talks / conferences on her practice.
Her work is part of the publication EMERGENCY INDEX, Annual document of performance practices (Editorial Ugly Duckling, Brooklyn, NY, 2023). She published the book How many bodies go into one body (Editorial Flanbé, Buenos Aires, 2020).
Since 2017 she has been running the platform and archive Mundo Performance. She gives workshops, labs and seminars on performance art, autobiography, photography and performativity.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
MUNDO PERFORMANCE is a platform for research, training and archiving around contemporary artistic practice interested in corporeality, memories and affects within art and outside the disciplinary. This space is born from the need to continue thinking and experimenting with performance art and its expansive possibilities in action, image and writing. From this space we propose collaborative procedures and doings in intimate and collective processes, from a circular, open, multiple and feminist methodology, thus weaving a close and affectionate community.
Born in 2017, under the coordination of the Argentine artist Roma Vaquero Diaz, this platform was mutating, growing and building new networks. It is currently located in the city of Buenos Aires, but develops projects that transgress the coordinates and happen inside and outside the country.