Bio [Eng]
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My practice is a cross between performance, image and writing, and unfolds as an investigation into the affective and transformative powers of gesture. From my earliest works, I have explored the body as living matter: a place of risk, improvisation and memory. I am interested in movement as a portal for transformation, where each action becomes a way of thinking about the world and opening up a space in which the intimate is linked to the collective.
My performances incorporate gestures, natural objects, territories and affective archives. Stones, branches, photographs, texts and sounds are activated in rituals that bring the human and the non-human, the present and the ancestral into dialogue. I do not conceive of performance as a solitary act, but as a shared experience, an event that brings together those who participate.
With a Master’s degree in Combined Artistic Languages (UNA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts (UNR), I have been running Mundo Performance since 2017, a platform dedicated to research, training and the archiving of action art. My work has been presented in museums, festivals and residencies in Argentina, Europe, the United States and Asia, always seeking ways to create community through art.
In the publishing field, I published How Many Bodies Go into a One Body, a conceptual book that combines photography and performance, and Archive to Get Myself Back, a performative novel that explores memory, loss, and modes of narration.
Each project seeks to destabilise the notion of a fixed or self-sufficient body, affirming instead its porous and relational condition: a space open to other bodies, other memories and other possible ways of life.
ROMA VAQUERO DIAZ
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She was born in Pergamino (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 1982.
She is a visual and performance artist. Her artistic practice and research explore the possible forms of nomadism between the body, image and language, approached through the prism of affect, memory and experience. She holds a Master’s degree in Combined Artistic Languages (UNA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts (UNR). Since 2017, she has been directing Mundo Performance, a platform dedicated to training, research and professional development in performance art and the visual arts.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in exhibitions such as Emptiness Has Its Charm at Tiempo Gallery / Central AFFAIR (2026-2025), Translations about a Body of Humus at CasaSur Gallery in Madrid (2025); What We See looks back at us at ArtexArte Gallery (2025); Marginalia. Notas, visiones y escrituras en los bordes at the POSVERSO Biennial, Casa Pronto (2024), FlowILM at the Cameron Art Museum in North Carolina (2024), ARDER en lo que ya ardiendo ardía at the Museo del libro y de la lengua (2023), the Luminic Festival of Contemporary Photography in Barcelona (2022-23), Políticas del deseo at the Centro Cultural Kirchner (2020) and We Are Not a Territory of Conquest at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Pettoruti (2019).
In the publishing world, she has published How Many Bodies Go into One Body, a conceptual book that blends photography and performance, and Archive to Get Myself Back, a performative novel that explores memory, loss and modes of storytelling. The book was a finalist for the 2026 SUR ArtexArte Prize. Her work is also featured in EMERGENCY INDEX. Annual Document of Performance Practices (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023).
She participated in residencies such as Manta in Aluminé (2024), Curadora in Santa Fe (2023), Raíces in Catamarca (2022) and R.A.R.O. in Madrid (2022).
Roma Vaquero Diaz lives and works in Buenos Aires, where she pursues artistic research that combines performance, photography and writing in relation to her environment and in a spirit of continuous exploration.
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.