(Valencia, 1976)

Esperanza Collado is an artist-researcher and her practice includes independent curating and programming, criticism and teaching. She is the author of Paracinema: The dematerialisation of cinema in artistic practices (VII Premio Escritos Sobre Arte de la Fundación Arte y Derecho, released by Trama Editorial, Madrid 2012), where she explores the concept of cinema disconnected from its physical devices. Her recent art work researches the presence of the body in filmmaking situations through the articulation of choreographed movements around the projection space. Her films, in 16mm format, are designed for performance art contexts.