Rebeca Romero

b. 1982, Peru

Rebeca Romero's practice spans sculpture, textiles, writing, sound and performance. She creates objects, texts and installations that challenge the dominant historical narrative of the clash between Indigenous and European cultures.
 
Often combining Pre-Columbian iconography with advanced scanning and printing technologies and materials ranging from clay to plastic, her works swing drastically between the past and an alternate future. Online museum archives become an excavation ground for the collection of data, that she later recontextualizes, reassembles and re-presents. With a focus on new materialities, processes of production and collaboration between artist and machine, her work seeks to question ideas and practices of representation, appropriation and authorship.

Romero received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2020), and she is a recipient of the Arts Council of England ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ grant (2021).

Romero has recently been awarded the OGR Prize 2023 for her work Semilla SAGRADA. The work will be acquired by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, remaining on loan to OGR Torino in its physical and digital versions.

Recent and upcoming projects include Kenophobic Pantomimes, Below Grand, New York (USA), and south open, OHSH Projects, London (UK).