Independent curatorMajored in History with a DEA in International and African Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), she is specialized in postcolonial and cultural studies. She has been coordinator of cultural activities at the Three Cultures Foundation in Seville (Spain). She has worked in Cairo, Egypt, as representative of artists at the Egyptian Center for Culture and Art abroad. She was part of the organization of the African Film Festival of Tarifa (Spain) and in charge of artistic direction and lateral activities from 2005 until 2010.Until February 2016 she was co-founder with Mónica Santos of the curatorial platform Masasam created in 2007 and specialized in curatorial proposals and photography.

Today, she combines her curatorial work as critic, reviewer of portfolios and organizes conferences and encounters.

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Proyecta 2017Imagining other possible realms

Curator of PROYECTA : Screenings and Conversations. A big night of projection of contemporary images and an encounter between professionals of the world of photography at the town hall of Madrid.

Today photographers are aware that they have in their hands a fantastic device, able to imagine other possible realms. And imagining, as Hannah Arendt said, is the ability to empathise with the other.

The projection format will allow us to reflect on what is common, offering more inclusive possibilities.

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Mediterranean Literary GatheringAlbert CamusCoordination and direction of the Mediterranean Literary Gathering that will be held in Menorca from the 29th of April to the 1st of May 2017. This event would like to give tribute to Albert Camus and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the concession of the Nobel Prize granted to Camus in 1957 “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”.

In the frame of this event, curator of the exhibition NORAY. A project by the Spanish photographer Juan Valbuena.

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HUMANÆ Work in ProgressAngélica Dass

Curator of the exhibition Humanæ. Work in Progress by Angélica Dass at Getxo and Bilbao on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Humanæ is a constantly evolving project by Angélica Dass, the photographer, who strives to show that what defines the human being is its essential unique and therefore different condition. She therefore embarked on the titanic task of creating the largest and most colourful catalogue recording human skins. Thus she creates a system, an infinitely colourful mosaic, where men, women, boys and girls of different multiple nationalities, ages, biographies and identities pose voluntarily and head on to tell us, in a totally dignified way just who they are. Humanæ thus manages to make up a male and female “us”, without labels.

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21|03 -10|042016

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Aquellos que esperanBorja Larrondo + Diego Sánchez

Curator of the exhibition “Aquellos Que Esperan. La même indifférence” at Festival Circulation (s) Paris, at the 104.

Tanks to a three-month residence at the Cenquatre Paris, Borja Larrondo and Diego Sánchez with the collaboration of Koln Studio have enriched their multi-format project developed in Spain documenting life in the Orcasur district of Madrid with a new body of work carried out at la Courneuve in Paris. This new stage seeks to outline, in a splintered way, bridges of comparison and furthermore to make us feel and question ourselves about the future of our societies.

With the support of the Festival Circulation (s) and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain.

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26|03 -07|082016

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Dakar Face to FaceElise Fitte Duval

Elise Fitte-Duval born in Martinica and living in Dakar, Senegal since 2001 is the winner of the second Casa África price awarded at the 2011 Bamako Biennal Festival of African Photograhy in Mali and directed by Masasam

The images of Elise have a fundamental objective which is to give visibility to invisible stories and denounce the living conditions of thousands of people abandoned to their fate by the public and political authorities of the city of Dakar.

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10|12|2015 -10|01|201608|05 -08|08|2014

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Dialectical Images Conversations & Screenings on Contemporary Photography

Two days of dialogue in order to reflect upon current photographic practice.

Those conversations where structured around 3 main topics. The first one dealt with the figure of the photographer as a collector of fragments. The second reflected on the model of the photographic collective and in the last one the discussion concerned the projection of images.

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02|03 -03|032015

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My plate: my rightThe right to food and food security

Curator of the exhibition “My Plate: My right. The right to food and food security” at Meknes during the 9th edition of the Moroccan International Agricultural show held from April 24th to May 3rd 2014. Organized by ICP and Turner editions with the support of the Minister of Agriculture of the Kingdom of Morocco.

24|04 -03|052014

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Keep your eye on the wallPalestinian landscapes

Collective exhibition with photographs by Taysir Batniji, Rula Halawani, Raeda Saadeh, Steve Sabella and Kai Wiedenhöfer.

A little over ten years ago, the Israeli state began erecting the Separation Wall. Since then, the lives of Palestinians have deteriorated: international law has been violated, and free movement has been refused to the entire population, intensifying suspicion, hatred and bitterness between Israelis and Palestinians, who were already profoundly isolated from one another.

It is therefore urgent to ‘keep an eye on the wall’. In this exhibition, five photographers look at the wall in unexpected ways. Their views decipher the wall, circumvent it; even shift it, imparting it with another presence in order to resist against it.

> itinerancy of the exhibitionMagasin Électrique (Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles) Arles, July 20134ª Bienal PhotoquaiDupon, Paris, September 2013Contemporary Art Platform (CAP)Kuwait, April 2014French- German Cultural CenterRamallah, May 2014

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Alwan 338Public Art Festival Bahrain

Co-director of the 2nd edition of Alwan 338 around the concept of COMMON GROUND.

8 International artists Ismael Bahri/Tunisia, Ndary Lo/Senegal, Noor Ali/Pakistan, Sylvie Meunier/France, Osama Esid/Siria, Mat Jacob and Alain Willaume (Tendance Floue)/France, Alessandra Domingues/ Brazil

20 locals artists: Madina Ali Jasim, Latifa Al Shakar, Asma Murad, Haya Al Khalifa, Sergio Miranda, Noor Al Bastaki, Wasan Madan, Sara Kanoo, Eman Ali, Isa Swain, Tamara Al-Pachachi, Jaffar Al Oraibi, Mercedes de Garay, Conor Maguire, Ali Hussain, Ali Najim, Jenine Sharabi, Mohamed Sharkawy, Ulafa’a Collective

An exhibition with 6 international photographers: Angelica Dass/Brazil, Sunghee Lee/South Corea, Mat Jacob/France, Marta Soul/Spain, Olivier Culmann/France and Gilles Coulon/France

A month with installations specially commissioned for Alwan 338 and curated by Masasam, projections organized by Lowave, workshops with Atwork and Lettera 27, collective exhibitions and much more.

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26|03 -26|042013

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Fragments of a new historyZanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is the winner of the first Casa África prize awarded at the 2009 Bamako Biennal Festival of African Photograhy in Mali.

Muholi’s work is profound and provocative with a whole corpus of images aimed specifically at one clear objective: to make lesbian activism visible in South Africa.

Muholi s oeuvre posits many challenges to the South African society as a whole. It is simultaneously an invitation, a celebration and an indictment. Her work forces us to question the nature and role of art as much as it demands us to question what it means to be a woman in Africa who chooses to love another woman.

Exhibition presented at Casa África, las Palmas, Canary Islands in October 2011 and at Bordeaux in the frame of the programme entitled « Saisons croisées France - Afrique du Sud » in November 2013.

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A Dream of a Return Journey. The Congolese SapeHéctor Mediavilla & Boudouin Mouanda

Through the eyes of photographers Baudouin Mouanda from Congo Brazzaville and his Spanish counterpart Héctor Mediavilla, this exhibition tells us about the fascinating phenomenon of the SAPE, the Society of Ambianceurs and Elegant People. A facet of contemporary African cultural reality as unknown as extravagant that reveals another face of Africa while forcing us to question the traditional cliché of Africa that exists in Europe.

> itinerancy of the exhibitionÁfrica ImprescindiblePamplona, October 2010Casa ÁfricaLas Palmas Canary Island, March 2011African Film Festival TarifaTarifa, June 2011French InstituteKinshasa, Democratic republic of Congo, September 2011Braga International Festival of Photography Braga, Portugal, September 2014

102010

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MotherlandPandora

Collective exhibition presented at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome as part of the X International Photography Festival of Rome, Italy.

The photographers Sergi Cámara, Héctor Mediavilla, Alfonso Moral and Fernando Moleres, of the Pandora Photographic Collective, approach the notion of “Motherland” from a documentary perspective, but one understood not as a mirror reflecting memory, not as a copy of the world but as a medium capable of constructing its own referents. In this way it gives us the possibility to develop a discourse on the world, recreating it and endowing it with other meanings.

23|09-26|102011

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Songs of ImmediacyMat Jacob and Gilles Coulon

Songs of Immediacy by the French photographers Gilles Coulon and Mat Jacob from the collective Tendance Floue, is the result of an artistic residency in the town of Mont-de-Marsan in the south west of France, where the Arte Flamenco Festival has been hosted for over two decades.

In this exhibition, an encounter occurs between photography and flamenco, two arts which start a dialogue in a common language.

Exhibition presented at Qatar Photographic Society, at Katara Cultural Village, Doha, Qatar for the 1rst Bravo Flamenco Festival in Doha.

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16|05-15|062011

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Play on representationOsama Esid

The work of Osama Esid is a visual manifest of the relationship between the “West” and the Arab World at the turn of the XXI century, investigating the social preconceptions and stereotypes that were created on either side in the past, and which in some way still persist in our collective consciousness.The questions that derive from the work of Osama Esid and play on ways of representing the “other”, are: How do Westerners perceive those they denominate “Orientals”? And, how do both Westerners and Orientals represent those they call “others”?

Exhibition presented for the first time in Cordoba in June 2007.

> itinerancy of the exhibition:Jaén December 2007Tarifa April 2008Granada June 2008GetxoPhoto September 2008África Imprescindible Pamplona, February 2011

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La même indifférence Orcasur (esp) / La Courneuve (fr)

publications 032016

A set of large-scale measures bring about identical or similar results in different societies.

Through a three-month residence at the Cenquatre Paris, Borja Larrondo and Diego Sanchez with the collaboration of Koln Studio have enriched their multi-format project developed in Spain documenting life in the Orcasur district of Madrid with a new body of work carried out at la Courneuve in Paris. This new stage seeks to outline, in a splintered way, bridges of comparison and furthermore to make us feel and question ourselves about the future of our societies.

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain.Artists in residence / Festival Circulation(s) 2016

curator:Sandra Maunac edition:Aquellos Que Esperan Borja Larrondo and Diego Sánchez design:KolnST Daniel Fuente y Pablo Mariné print:Brizzolis artes graficas

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La carte des possibles: la sape kinoiseMagazine Palais #21. Palais de Tokyo

publications 02-052015

Text entitled «La carte des possibles: la Sape kinoise » in number 21 of the Palais magazine, dedicated in integrality to the exhibition “ At the edge of the worlds” at the Palais de Tokyo (February-May 2015).

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La SapeHéctor Mediavilla

Masasam collaborated with PictureTank and the French publishing house Intervalles on the monographic work of Héctor Mediavilla dedicated to the dandies of Brazzaville.

For this book Masasam has written a text and has participated in the artistic direction.

The launch of this first book on Hector Mediavilla’s work about the S.A.P.E was presented at the Petite Poule Noire Gallery in Paris, in January 2013 and was accompanied with an exhibition curated by Masasam.

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012013

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Collection African Women PhotographersN º1: Zanele Muholi

Directed by Masasam and promoted by Casa Africa, this collection is aimed at making the most outstanding African women photographers better known, particularly those who won the Casa Africa Award at the Bamako African Photography Biennal.

Nº 1 of the collection: Zanele Muholi

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Lens School of photographyMadrid Programme of activities developed during Parisphoto for the students of the Master in photography by Lens School in Madrid. November 2013, 2014 and 2015

Lecture and conferences about photography form on the African continent done at Lens School of photography, Madrid “African photography or photography realized in Africa?”May 2012

“Other worlds in a body in movement” May 2014

«The mobility of the multiple image» May 2015

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education 2012-2015

Plural 16 Photograhy School EftiMadrid, April 2016

Photoespaña International Festival of Photography Madrid, June 2015

Emergentes DSTInternational Festival of Photography Braga, Portugal, September 2013 and 2014

SCAN. Full contactInternational Festival of PhotographyTarragona, October 2012, 2014 and 2016

Bamako International Festival of PhotographyMali, November 2011

portfolios reviews 2011-2016

Plural 16 Moderator of the round table at Efti’s Photography School in Madrid, April 2016

The othersOlivier CulmannPresentation of the book at Lens, Madrid, April 2016

Retratar un climaCreation residency of Elise Fitte-Duval in MadridDebate “How to portray a climate?” and presentation of the exhibition “Dakar cuerpo a cuerpo”. Madrid, December 2014

La SapeHéctor MediavillaPresentation of the book at KOWASA library, Barcelona, April 2013

Marta Soul & Angélica DassPresentation of the work of Marta Soul and Angélica Dass, Studio Banana, Madrid, May 2013

Collection African Women PhotographersPresentation of the collection at Dakar Biennale, French Institute, May 2012

encounters, conferences and presentations 2012-2016