Paula Lopez Zambrano

Paula Lopez Zambrano. Curator and researcher; current MPhil/PhD student at Goldsmiths University London; previously studied an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at Royal College of Art, London and BA in Art History at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. She has worked in museums, private galleries, non for profit projects, research centres internationally: including the Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca (Mexico), Curare, Critical Space for the Arts (Mexico City), Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge), Carpe Diem Art & Research (Lisbon), among others. Recent projects include the curatorship of Cuts to Violence, a moving image programme presented to the annual festival Fuso (Lisbon, August 2015); a public programme entitled What One Can Be... presented at The House of St Barnabas as part of Social Art 15 festival (London, September 2015); and Out of Site, an exhibition for JosédelaFuente Gallery (Cantabria, Spain, November 2015). She is also a writer and member of the Student Forum at the ICA London.

Research project: My research is focused on the concept of contingency in contemporary art and curating. I’m interested in exploring and constructing exhibitions that propose alternatives to a human-centred and subjective arrangement of works of art with contingent means. Under this premise, I seek to develop experimental curatorial projects and research on art theory and contemporary art practices that challenge, represent and provoke aspects of contingency; including topics such as violence and accidents; synchronicity and anachronism; structural violence and transgression.