Laura Tabarés
Laura Tabarés (León, 1991) is a visual artist and cultural director. Her research centres on digitality as a way to access other dimensions of reality that can reveal how violence operates and allow considering other political possibilities. Her approach feeds from Internet folklore and awareness of trauma. She addresses issues regarding sexist violence, feminised knowledge, feminist conspiracies, and dreaming of peripheral futures.
Tabarés is currently creating art projects and is part of running educational and cultural programmes. She has been the joint founder and mother of the Ontologías Feministas cultural-production collective, and co-founder and coordinator of the Leira centre for research, art-creation and cultural-production (Lugo, Galicia).
She has been chosen for a Femtek 2019 residency, a 2021 Injuve Creative Youth Grant, and an Immaterial 2022 residency (Tabakalera, Madrid). She has exhibited projects at Compás88 (Mexico), DONE – Fotocolectania, and LOOP and Cineteca (Matadero de Madrid). Recipient of official nominations and awards in various audio-visual festivals, such as Wench Film Festival (India), Intersección and Curtocircuito (Galicia), Santiago Horror Film Festival (Chile), and the Digerati/Supernova Digital Animation Festival (USA). Tabarés has given talks at the CCCB, Tabakalera, WOS Festival (Galicia), Centro Cultural Kirchner (Argentina) and the Fundación Cerezales (León); and led workshops at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), Hangar (Barcelona), Mal de Baile (Madrid), Matadero de Madrid, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Fiebre Photobook (Madrid), the Bienal de Pensamiento (Barcelona), and the Tenerife Arts Space. She has taught sessions for the master’s in architectural communication at the Museo Virtual – María José Jove Foundation (ETSAM), among other courses.
Update: 12 September 2023