Bio [Eng]
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My artistic practice is interested in aesthetic-affective experiences that are activated in the encounter between gesture, ritual and ecosystem. As a multidisciplinary artist I experiment with different languages in search of a way of saying and building worlds in the world, but my saying always starts from the body. Thinking of the body as skin, bone, blood, but also as memories, thoughts, pains, ideas, urgencies, presence; body as all that we are and that is in transit of being or being constructed. Always in relation, not as something fixed and finished, but in the potential of being. Performance art and body memories are the common thread and starting point of my projects that include video, photography and installation. I use writing as a documentation of making and as a production of thought. I consider the practice as a form of knowledge and as a praxis of freedom. I understand art as a way to perform life, as an insistence to extend into the landscape and meet others, as a way to perform one’s own history. I am interested in constant artistic research and the possibility that production grows in parallel to my own growth and the course of life.
Roma Vaquero Diaz (Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982)
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Multidisciplinary artist. Master in Combined Artistic Languages (Universidad Nacional de las Artes), Bachelor of Performing Arts (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) and Professor of Arts in Dance / Body Expression (Escuela Provincial Superior de Teatro Gilberto Alfredo Mesa, Junín). She was part of the Artists Program at Galería Gachi Prieto (2021) and is currently attending the Manglar Program coordinated by Andrés Labaké at Galería Acéfala. She completed residencies at Curadora, Santa Fe (2023); Raíces, Catamarca (2022); R.A.R.O. Madrid (2022); Escuchar la fotografía- Galería Artexarte, Buenos Aires (2021); La Flecha, Capitán Sarmiento (2020 – 2019); Originario, Cura Malal (2018).
She had solo exhibitions: Cuántos cuerpos entran en un cuerpo, Galería Olla Roja, Buenos Aires (2022); No somos territorio de conquista, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Pettoruti, La Plata (2019); La Cosahecha, Museo de la ciudad, Pergamino (2012).
Her recent projects were exhibited at Museo del libro y de la lengua (CABA), Can Basté (Barcelona), Centro de Arte Maristany (Barcelona), Quinta del sordo (Madrid); Galería Gachi Prieto (CABA); Centro Cultural Kirchner (CABA); Cherry Street Pier (Philadelphia); Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes (La Plata); Espacio Idea MEC (Montevideo); Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti (CABA); Museo Jacobo Borges (Caracas); Centro Cultural San Martín (CABA).
In 2020 he published the book Cuántos cuerpos entran en un cuerpo (Editorial Flanbé, 2020).
Since 2017 she has been leading the cultural platform Mundo Performance.
She lives and works in Buenos Aires where she gives workshops on performance art, autobiography and programs for artistic projects.
Mundo Performance is a platform for research and training in performance art and contemporary art. Born in 2017, it was mutating, growing and building new networks, under the coordination of the Argentine artist Roma Vaquero Diaz. She was joined by the work and editing team, and the participation of artists and collaborators from different territories and disciplines.
Currently and territorially, we are located in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. But we also develop projects that expand these coordinates and take place inside and outside the country, such as curatorial proposals, workshops, research, talks and the Latin American Performers Network.
We are interested in building imaginaries, thoughts and actions in relation to art and artists. As the possibilities of meeting and building joint projects, realizing that being an artist is not only a way of doing but a way of going through life.