Draft:Laura Vallés Vílchez

Biografy Laura Vallés Vilchez (1984)

BIOGRAFY: Laura Vallés Vílchez (Castelló de la Plana, 1984) is a curator, editor and researcher. He studied Fine Arts and completed a Masters in Photography at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. This allowed him to do a residency between the two studies at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne). In 2022 he received his doctorate from the Royal College of Arts in London, where he currently teaches curatorial courses and directs the European project 4Cs From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture.

He started teaching thanks to a grant from the Botín Foundation and uses his work as co-founder and editor of the Concreta project to do so. Concreta is a publishing house that publishes a magazine and several books, and sediments previous experiences in organizations that move between the pedagogical environment and the public environment. An example of this is Afterall London, a publishing house linked to Central Saint Martins; He worked there in 2009. Then, in 2010, he went to MoCP at Columbia University (Chicago).

As a curator, he has held several exhibitions: Te toca a ti (EACC, 2018), 15,600 días. Xisco Mensua (CCCC, 2019), A través de la arena (Azkuna Zentroa, Artium and CentroCentro, 2019-20), Mitos del futuro próximo (Fotonoviembre, TEA, 2019-20) and Teresa Lanceta: Tejer como código abierto (MACBA- IVAM, 2022-23). He has also given lectures at various institutions: Royal Academy of Arts, SOAS, University of Granada and UPV/EHU. And he has also translated works by Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, Moyra Davey and Paul B. Preciado.

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2004,2003,2002 Fine Arts Image and sound EHU/ UPV Estudios de Arte Dramatico.Sta.Clara, Portugalete Radio Workshop With Fernando Garcia Delgado.UIMP, santander Seminary Falsification and copying of art: Nuevas Tecnologias Seminar Museums as a learning space: New experiences Seminar El Romantico en la Merindad de Campo, Cantabria. Comprehensive intervention proposals in the territory scholarships 2004 Beca Creaccion BilboArte. The ranger de skin project 2003 Group exhibitions 2003 Getxoarte 2003

Laura is a cultural worker operating at the intersection between editing, curating, writing, translating and educating within the expanded field of the visual arts. Laura's academic work focuses on post-representational curating from an intersectional feminist perspective. In 2021, she was appointed UK Creative Director of the 4Cs From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture project. Activities include the exhibition Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer with Oba: Nosferasta at Gasworks, curated with CCA alumnus Sabel Galvaldon, the film programme Sensible Grounds: That's How We Undo It at LUX, curated with Azar Mahmoudian, as well as seminars and workshops. Laura's research is nourished by the labour she does as co-founder and director of Concreta: a Spanish non-profit organisation that publishes a pe

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Lives in Benicasim/Benicàssim, Castellón, Spain Awards won: Call for artistic direction and curatorship of the Official Section of Fotonoviembre 2019 Komisario berriak 2018 Trajectòries. Call for the review of Valencian artistic trajectories 2018-2020 Current activity: FOUNDER/EDITOR AT:Concrete Publishing DESCRIPTION OF THE ART PROFESSIONAL Laura Vallés is a writer, researcher and occasional curator of contemporary art. As founder and editor of Concreta: an organization on image creation and theory that publishes a biannual magazine as well as a series of books, she has edited and/or translated the work of authors such as Jacques Rancière, Donna Haraway, James Meyer, Ariella Azoulay and Marina Garcés, among others. She has curated exhibitions and organized events with the filmmakers Pedro Costa or Fabrizio Terranova, the artist Carla Zaccagnini, or the philosopher Franco Berardi Bifo, among other professionals in the sector, at La Filmoteca (Valencia), Feira Tijuana (Porto), Fundació Tàpies (Barcelona ) or Lumen Studios (London). She has worked on exhibition and editorial projects in institutions such as Bombas Gens (Valencia), EACC (Castellón), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) or Afterall (London). Her writings have been published in periodicals including Camera Austria, Babelia-El País, Concreta, 1000 Words Magazine and A*Desk. She currently combines her work editorial with his doctoral studies at the Royal College of Art in London, where she resides, thanks to a scholarship from the Botín Foundation

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