Rafael Romero Peรฑa

video , installatie , fotografie , Digitale technologie , Audiovisueel , Artistiek onderzoek

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. Heโ€™s 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.

Solo, 2025.
Solo, 2025. - SOLO, 2025. Film 17.15 mins Salvador Torres is a professional athlete currently training for his first Olympic Games. The son of athletes, with a Spanish mother and a Cuban father, he decides to travel to Havana to meet his father for the first time. Upon returning to Madrid, he receives unexpected news that will make him question his reasons for competing. This work was made possible thanks to Mondriaan Start Grant.
All The Love Songs Talk About God, 2024. [Performance]
All The Love Songs Talk About God, 2024. [Performance] - As an ending page to a long-term project, I'm pleased to invite you to, ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜Ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ. A performance exploring themes of mimicry, social alignment, and prayers. Inspired by the lives of Dolores and Ana, a lesbian couple who concealed their relationship from public view during the 1950s in Spain and later in the early 1970s in Holland, the performance showcases an adapted dialogue that explores the struggles and complexities of their desires, biases, and the societal contexts they navigated. Through the dialogue, the two characters present opposing stances towards the same issue: mimicry, as a coping mechanism in response to trauma.
All the Love Songs Talk about God, 2024.
All The Love Songs Talk About God, 2024. - All the Love Songs Talk about God, 2024. GRAW. Business Ours, Group Show. Size: 4x80x112cm Materials: Handmade soap with waste vegetal oils, fats, and caustic soda. Wood, varnish, and glue.
Monium, 2024.
Monium, 2024. - Monium, 2024. Buisness, South Explorer Rotterdam. Group Show.
Our Red Heels, 2024
Our Red Heels, 2024 - Our Red Heels, 2024. Prospects and Concepts, Art Rotterdam. Size: 210x90x9cm - 102x100x7cm - 50x32x20cm Materials: Wood, glue, varnish, print on wallpaper, print โ€‹on foam, paper, glass, whiskey, textile, metal hooks.
La Caja
La Caja, 2021. - La Caja, 2021. Short film 3 mins. La Caja is a teaser video exploring the contents of an old medicine box from 1920. The items in the box retrace memories of family members found in those pictures. This work was part of the Research Lab at Eye Museum 2021.
Fever, 2019. - Inspired by the claustrophobic atmosphere of Hong Kong, Fever is a reflection on the confrontation between traditional values and contemporary lifestyles, the idea of the exotic and its visual representationโ€”a film expressing the complexities of gazing at foreign cultures through visual media.

All The Love Songs Talk About God, 2024. (Performance)

Datum:
Locatie: BUISNESS
In samenwerking met: Paulina Vogel - Nadine Ghandour

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.

https://rafaelromeropena.com/justlikedustfalls

Open

Datum:
Locatie: BUISNESS
In samenwerking met: South Explorer
https://rafaelromeropena.com/thewayshewalks

Art Rotterdam, 2024. Prospects and Concepts.

Datum:
Locatie: Van Nelle Fabriek
In samenwerking met: Mondriaan Fonds
https://rafaelromeropena.com/our-red-heels-

Art Rotterdam, 2024. Prospects and Concepts.

Datum:
Locatie: Zuid Holland
In samenwerking met: Mondriaan Fonds
https://rafaelromeropena.com/our-red-heels-

Fotofocus Symposium 2022 - "Watching movies with subtitles"

Datum:
Locatie: The Garfield Theatre
In samenwerking met: FOTOFOCUS

Guest lecturer at Fotofocus Symposium 2022 - Telephotography - Curated by Kevin Moore.

Screening Fever.

Panel discussion: "Watching movies with subtitles"

https://www.fotofocus.org/symposium/2022/participants/?fbclid=IwAR0idIK43NMBIT2HwXzEgRh3yKve1AWQLccdlPqkyYlXiB5w3UDt57Wf1Oo

Henotic: How to Live Together?

Datum:
Locatie: ReNeeNee
In samenwerking met: Carolina Papetti, Fernanda Libman Fonseca, Ingeborg Meier Andersen, and Tamir Eting.

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.

https://movementexposed.com/2021/06/10/henotic-how-to-live-together/

Odyssey, Mateusz Staniak - Noord Nederland Theater, Groningen. (Cinematographer and Editor)

Datum:
Locatie: Noord Nederlands Toneel
In samenwerking met: Mateusz Staniak

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.

https://www.theaterkrant.nl/recensie/open-nites/noord-nederlands-toneel-club-guy-roni-nite/
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