Cinc gestos per salvar lo Delta [2023-ong]
I. Enversada
II. Exploracions personals
Never Neverland [2016-2024]
Text
Photos
Dummy
Installations
Cuarentena [2020-21]
Portfolio ‘26
About
Cinc gestos per salvar lo Delta [2023-ong]
I. Enversada
II. Exploracions personals
Never Neverland [2016-2024]
Text
Photos
Dummy
Installations
Cuarentena [2020-21]
Portfolio ‘26
About
Her work explores the politics of intimacy, care, and belonging as sites shaped by class, gender, and territory. Drawing from her own background and lived experience, she is particularly interested in how these forces leave their mark on bodies, identities, and forms of attachment.
Her recent projects focus on ritual practices, collective memory, and women’s embodied knowledge in climate-vulnerable communities, especially in the Ebro Delta, examining how relationships to land and place are maintained, transmitted, and negotiated under conditions of environmental threat. Collaborative processes run throughout her work as a method of production and engagement.
Her work has been presented at Eufònic, SCAN Festival, Art Photo Bcn, PhotoAlicante, Espai Fotogràfic Can Basté, Menorca Doc Fest (Spain), Centrum Kultury Zamek (Wrocław), and La Centrale 22 (Paris). Her project Never Neverland was acquired by the National Archive of Catalonia under the National Photography Plan 2023 and received four awards at Art Photo Bcn.
She holds an MA in Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Thought from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Since 2020, she co-leads El Catalejo, a community-based initiative focused on contextual image-making and critical visual engagement
Contact details:
vrocaforne@gmail.com
@vanessaroca
Barcelona, Spain
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Awards and Scholarships
Grant for Artistic Creation, Research and Innovation in Visual Arts, Departament de Cultura, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2025, Recipient (SP)
Biennial Grant for Community Culture Projects and Social Transformation, Department of Culture, Generalitat of Catalonia, 2024, Winner (SP)
SCAN Tarragona, Talent Latent (central exhibition), 2023, Artist Selection (SP)
PhotoAlicante International Photography, Tiempos para celebrar, 2023, Artist Selection (SP)
El Observatorio, Scholarship in Storytelling and Final Formats, 2022, Winner (SP)
Fer Foc II Castelló, Professional Photography Fair, 2022, Artist Selection (SP)
Visionados Art Photo Bcn, Winner of Art Photo Bcn 2021 Award, Wall Award of Copia Lab, LABASAD Photo Award, and IEFC Award (SP)
Barciff (Barcelona Indie Film Festival), 2021, Artist Selection (SP)
Young Creators Scholarship, Fundación Antonio Gala, 2021, Finalist (SP)
16th Fòrum Fotogràfic Can Basté, 2021, Finalist (SP)
Portfolio Review with Donna Ferrato, Formentera Fotográfica, 2021, Artist Selection (SP)
Best Cinematography at the Gala de las Estrellas, 2013, Universidad Austral (AR)
Third Prize for Solidarity Journalism, 2011, Fundación Hazloposible (SP)
Tahina-Can Bancaja Expedition Scholarship, 2020, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (SP)
Solo and Group Exhibitions
Open studio, Centre d’Art Lo Pati, Amposta, 2026
Cap. 1: Enversada, Eufònic, La Ràpita, site-specific, 2025
Never Neverland, Espai Fotogràfic Can Basté, 2023, Solo exhibition, Barcelona (SP)
Never Neverland in Talent Latent, SCAN Tarragona, 2023, Group exhibition, Tarragona (SP)
Never Neverland in Tiempo que celebrar, PhotoAlicante, 2023, Group exhibition, Alicante (SP)
Never Neverland, Menorca Doc Fest, 2022, Solo exhibition, Menorca (SP)
Never Neverland, Art Photo Bcn, 2022, Solo exhibition, Barcelona (SP)
Never Neverland, Copia Lab, 2022, Solo exhibition, Barcelona (SP)
Take up space, Tymczasem Gallery - Centrum Kultury Zamek, 2022, Group exhibition, Wroclaw (PL)
La maison est de peau, LaCentrale22, 2021, Installation, Paris (FR)
Ínsula, FotoLimo Festival, 2020, Group exhibition and Publication, Portbou (SP)
El Salto, Fine Art Photography Festival of Igualada, 2016, Group exhibition, Igualada (SP)
Printed Publication
SCAN, Traces de llum. La memòria fotogràfica, catalogue with texts by curator Érika Goyarrola, 2023
Tiempos para celebrar, exhibition catalogue, PhotoAlicante, 2023
Eines 50, Gallery: La intimidad compartida, magazine, Fundació Irla, 2024
Magrana. Cultura Contemporánea, No. 9, magazine, 2023
Ínsula, collective photobook, 2020
Collections
National Photography Archive Collection, Generalitat of Catalonia, 2023
Private Collection, PhotoAlicante, Alicante, 2023
Residencies
2026 Baladre - Centre d’Art Lo Pati, Amposta, Tarragona
Talks and Presentations
Gestos per salvar lo Delta, Centre d’Art Lo Pati, Amposta (forthcoming)
Nosaltres no tenim por, nosaltres som: Una revisión de las memorias disidentes, Negra Mosca, Barcelona, 2025
Community processes through artistic practice, University of Barcelona, 2025
Processes and photographic creation, University of Barcelona, 2023
Intimacy in artistic practice, Espai Català-Roca, Barcelona, 2021
Academic Education
Master’s in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought, UPF (SP)
Narrative Photography and Final Formats, 2023 - 2024, El Observatorio (SP)
Master in New Documentary Photography, 2021 - 2022, LaBasad (online)
Analog Experimental Cinema, 2022, IEFC (SP)
Author Documentary Photography, 2015 - 2016, El Observatorio (SP)
Bachelor in Social Communication (exchange), 2012 - 2013, Universidad Austral (AR)
Bachelor in Journalism, 2009 - 2013, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (SP)