team > Belén Romero
International PhD in Art History from the University of Valencia. Member of the National System of Researchers, CONACYT, Mexico. She has worked as a researcher in the Art History Department of this university (2010-2014), doing research stays at the Gender Studies Research Center (CIEG), at UNAM (2012), as well as at the Art & Ecology Program of the University of New Mexico (USA) (2013). She has been a teacher since 2017 of the Master in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts, (Miguel Hernández University, Spain). Member of the FIDEX research group, of the R+D+i “Energy Humanities: Energy and sociocultural imaginaries between the Industrial Revolution and the ecosocial crisis” (Institute of History-CSIC), as well as of the R+D+i “Critical Visualities: cultural ecologies and investigations of the common” (Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM). Member of the Red de Conceptualismos del Sur platform (coordinator of the Critical Ecologies group). Independent curator.
Currently, she works as a researcher at the Aesthetic Research Institute of the (UNAM), by obtaining a postdoctoral fellowship.
His work focuses on the analysis, from the History of Art, Visual Culture, and Political Ecology, of ecological maneuvers, that is, artistic and cultural practices of re-existence (that sustain life) and their link with epistemologies. decolonizing of the South, political action, decolonial feminisms and the concepts of representation and power.
Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200. Many were built during Franco’s dictatorship as part of his emblematic hydraulic policy, aimed at addressing post-war social, economic, and energy crises. Aside from the failed autarkic economic project, this…
Photograph: Elena Lavellés. Cranes at the Valdemingómez landfill. Documentation visit 2024. The limits of nature are dissolved under layers of cement, CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and waste produced from the activity of human beings. This overview leads us to a new vision that exceeds our capacity of comprehension and places us on the edge…
On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia durante los años setenta’, held at the Centro La Nau of the University of Valencia between March and June of this year, a book-catalogue has been published which presents both the materials of the exhibition and, more broadly, a…
