Rafael Romero Peรฑa (1988, ES/NL) is a visual artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. His work explores gazing methods within contextual studies, reflecting on notions of duality, mimicry, and displacement across sculpture, writing, and film. Heโs invested in the translation and juxtaposition of cultural biases as a method of abstraction and research through the sociopolitical biographies of objects, language, and film.
All The Love Songs Talk About God, 2024. (Performance)
Based on the short novel of the same name, the performance is inspired by the lives of Dolores and Ana, two lovers who concealed their relationship from public view during the 1950s in Spain and later in the late 1960s in Holland. Divided into three acts, the piece seeks to create a sense of intimacy and safety within the hypothetical frame of a house called 'Homeland,' focusing on the analysis of desire and its biases rooted in language, the biography of objects, and choreography.
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Art Rotterdam, 2024. Prospects and Concepts.
Art Rotterdam, 2024. Prospects and Concepts.
Fotofocus Symposium 2022 - "Watching movies with subtitles"
Guest lecturer at Fotofocus Symposium 2022 - Telephotography - Curated by Kevin Moore.
Screening Fever.
Panel discussion: "Watching movies with subtitles"
Henotic: How to Live Together?
The project Henotic: how to live together? parts from a burning question in four independent artists' minds. As choreographers, we are especially intrigued by the tensions of contemporary crises and the temporary communities that they produce. From the urgency to unite and independently organize performance programs in response to the scarcity in the field of live arts โ we look at ways to physically question and expand upon the concept of live-ness.
Odyssey, Mateusz Staniak - Noord Nederland Theater, Groningen. (Cinematographer and Editor)
Staniak's Odyssey is a video environment inspired by reality TV and our internet obsession with voyeurism. The young director uses techniques inspired by social media and surveillance video. To expose the dangers of online experiences.