Roma Blanco, the recipient of the 2025 Constelaciones Fellowship, is a visual artist focused on formal research between hybrid practices and long-term processes. Her work encompasses situated research, collaborative projects, performative action, audiovisual media, experimental printmaking, expanded objects, and installation.

Blanco alternates her artistic practice with teaching. She works as a Professor of Visual Arts, specializing in Painting and Printmaking, and as a Museologist focused on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I develop my practice through the alter ego of Curandera (Healer), a critical position that situates my work in the interstice where scientific and mystical forms of knowledge converge to interpret reality. From this threshold, my research explores the physical and metaphysical dimensions of things, proposing alternative readings of the world grounded in philosophy, science, and mysticism.

At ´ace, I carried out the second stage of the Constelaciones Fellowship through the project “Studies for Pangea and Ventania.” Within this context, I unfolded a geological universe of materialities, experiences, and intuitions gathered during the first phase at Residencia Pastizal. This environment allowed me to test processes, expand ideas, and weave together territorial research with the production phase developed in ´ace’s studios.

The fellowship provided a framework for deepening my engagement with situated research, while strengthening my strategies for translating and processing lived experience. Supported by a space of collective reflection and peer exchange, this process fostered a meaningful transition toward the production of new work.