Final Projects

Resident Researchers

Ainhoa Gilarranz is a María Zambrano post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Political History, Theories and Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Her studies focus on the cultural history of Spain, particularly the analysis of visual culture and art and the relation they bear to political power. Her work contributes to the debate on the construction of the nation state and national imaginaries, from the perspective of visual culture studies. She is an active member of the Centre de Recherche sur l'Espagne Contemporaine (CREC), associated with the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, where she worked as a post-doctoral researcher from 2019 to 2021.

Claudio Hontana, born in Logroño in 1999, is a writer, musician and researcher whose concerns revolve around debates on monument, urbanism, performance and public space. He holds a degree in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), and later studied the MA in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, run in the Museo Reina Sofía by UCM and UAM (the Autonomous University of Madrid). During his time in Madrid, he has worked for Colección SOLO and has produced and co-directed the documentary El arte de la fuga: conversaciones y paseos con Isidoro Valcárcel Medina (2022). He has also written for and edited different art and academic publications.

Gloria Luca, born in Iaşi, Romania, in 1988, is a visual artist and researcher who lives in Madrid. She studied the post-MA course “Critical Images” at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and has participated in different international programmes as an artist-in-residence and held a scholarship at the first edition of the Laboratory of Art and Thought organised by Es Baluard - Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma. Furthermore, she is the author of Dan Perjovschi: The Horizontal Newspaper – A School of Text and Image, published by Curtea Veche Publishing in Bucharest, inside the framework of the participation of artist Dan Perjovschi at documenta fifteen (Kassel, 2022). Further information is available on her website: www.glorialuca.net.

Concha Mateos, born in Plasencia in 1965, is a research professor at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. She earned a degree in Information Sciences in 1990, in the strand of the Audiovisual Image, from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Award in Social Sciences from the University of La laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in 2004. Her line of research focuses on the relationship between the media and social change, particularly the study of the change of civilisation in climate mutation. Before embarking on her academic career, she was a journalist and communications adviser in political organisations.

Biel Navarro holds a degree in Sociology and an MA in the Sociocultural Analysis of Knowledge and Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). His concerns revolve around STS (Science, Technology and Society) studies and gender studies, and he works in the context of material culture, the environment and feminisms from new materialisms and posthumanism.

Deyvi Papo is an architect and researcher who specialises in urban cultural studies. His research focuses on the intersection between urbanism, architecture, visual culture and museology, with a specific interest in the dynamics of public institutions, particularly museums. His work explores different cultural manifestations in public space and their influence on the curatorial sphere. He is currently working on projects that explore themes such as gentrification, touristification and so-called placemaking in Istanbul, examining how these dynamics influence the configuration and transformation of the city.

Florencia Rojas is a visual artist who was born in Argentina in 1984 and currently lives in Madrid. She has held solo shows like Avenida de los Poblados, sin número, curated by Jesús Alcaide (OTR., Madrid, 2022) and Como una casa (Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, 2024) and has taken part in numerous collective exhibitions at different art institutions, for instance TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife), the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC, Sevilla), the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A, Córdoba), the Community of Madrid’s Sala de Arte Joven, the Bilbaoarte Foundation (Bilbao), Matadero (Madrid) and the Centro Cultural España en Córdoba (Argentina).

Elia Romera-Figueroa holds a PhD from Duke University and is a CIVIS3i - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions CoFund post-doctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and a lecturer at New York University (NYU, Madrid). She specialises in Iberian Cultural Studies from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a focus on gender studies and sexuality, memory studies, performance, music, sound and, more recently, LatinX studies, a working strand that has led to her co-editing a monograph in the magazine Cultural Dynamics, under the title “Transatlantic LatinX Studies, Iberian Studies, and the Global South” (vol. 36, no. 1–2, February–May, 2024).

Georgina Solà, born in Barcelona in 2000, studied literary and linguistic preparatory classes in Paris, and is a French-Catalan translator of literature and essay. She regularly writes for the Quadern supplement from the El País newspaper.

Camila Viéitez, born in Santiago de Compostela in 1992, is an illustrator and designer. She contributes to different projects with artists and institutions, where she explores contemporary themes through the use of traditional techniques, and vice versa. She has self-published fanzines, many of them comedic, and has also worked with “serious” cultural associations. Furthermore, she has taught at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), in Madrid, and was a resident researcher on the first edition of Connective Tissue, the Museo Reina Sofía’s Study Programme in Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices and Cultural Studies (2023).