PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM | INTERNATIONAL | 2019
ALMUDENA ROMERO (LONDON, ENGLAND)
Almudena Romero uses historical imagery of all kinds – portraits of abolitionists, a diagram of a slave ship, Jamaican currency bearing the a bust of Queen Elizabeth, shots of contemporary sports personalities - to weave together a multifaceted, wide-ranging exploration of global migration and colonialism. She prints on actual plant specimens to poetically reference questions of nativity, trade and exchange. What is nature and what is culture, what does it mean to be “of” a place? The centuries-old traumas and hardships, imprinted on the psyches and skins of many peoples, that Romero alludes to in her use of archival materials are just as relevant today.
–Marina Berio (Artist and Educator. Member of the 2019 Jury)
Image © Almudena Romero.
“[…] My work focuses on how photographic processes and technology transform the notions of public, private, individuality, identity, and memory, […]”
Almudena Romero is a London based visual artist working with a wide range of photographic processes. Since 2015, Almudena has demonstrated and explained her practice at the Victoria and Albert Museum,National Portrait Gallery, TATE Modern-TATE Exchange, TATE Britain, The Photographers’ Gallery,Tsinghua Art Museum, the Whitechapel Gallery, Le Cent-Quatre Paris, University of the Arts London, Unseen Amsterdam, The Science Museum UK, and delivered courses and lectures for Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Estorick Collection, Mapfre Foundation, Sotheby's Institute of Art, University of Westminster, University for the Creative Arts, Kingston University, Southampton Solent University and London Art Fair. She has also received commissions to produce installations in public spaces from Team London Bridge, Southwark Council, Emergency Exit Artist, Wellcome Trust and University College London, Bow Arts Trust & London Festival of Architecture. Her work has been published in Photomonitor, Radio France Internationale, TimeOut, DUST magazine, EXTRA magazine (FOMU, Foto Museum) and other media.
