Ángela (Badajoz, Spain, 1993) graduated in Humanities at the University of Salamanca, she studied at Trinity College (Dublin) during the academic year of 2017/2018 and wrote her final dissertation on the photographic serie The Siege of Sarajevo by Spanish photojournalist Gervasio Sánchez, in which she reflected upon the aesthetics of destruction and the artistic as well as social role of conflict photography.

She was an intern and collaborator at Oxfam, where she helped designed educational and cultural projects such as cineforums and she has also participated in several volunteering initiatives abroad for different organisations in Perú and Norway, among others.

She is currently studying her MA in Sarajevo, following Global Campus European Regional Master’s Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe, as part of which she is interning at KUMA International, helping with the preparation of the 3rd edition of our Summer School while getting acquainted with the contemporary local art scene of Bosnia & Herzegovina.

She is working on her MA Thesis entitled “Bread and Roses: The Role of Art in Post Conflict Societies, Reconciliation Processes and Human Rights Promotion: the case of BiH.”, where she would like to explore the importance of contemporary artistic practices in today’s post conflict societies and reconciliation processes through the case study of Bosnia & Herzegovina.