Rosell Mesguer's relationship with the coast and the limits of space is close. Her visits as a child to the shipyards of the city of Cartagena and the mines of La Unión marked her themes of history, war, coast and mining, their relationship with the landscape and the processes of change on it.
Rosell Meseguer is a visual artist and holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she currently teaches. Since 2005 she has been developing her professional activity between Europe and Latin America through collaborations with museum institutions, art galleries and workshops in different universities in the American continent.
Born in Orihuela, Spain, Rosell Mesguer's relationship with the coast and the limits of space is close. Her visits as a child to the shipyards of the city of Cartagena and the mines of La Unión marked her themes of history, war, coast and mining, their relationship with the landscape and the processes of change on it.
Mesguer develops her work and research in different media: archive, photography, painting, installation, publications, drawing and video. She analyses the relationship between science, technology and art, as well as the creation of documentation methodologies developed since 2001 at the MoMA, New York; Tate Britain, London or the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others.
In recent years she has carried out projects at the Fundació Miró Mallorca, at the MAVI Museum of Visual Arts in Santiago, Chile and at the Museo Vostell Malpartida de Cáceres on art and geology.
She has received grants from the Spanish Academy in Rome, the Botín Scholarship and the Fundació Miró Mallorca. She has been invited and commissioned by institutions such as the Ministry of Culture and Sports, Spain; AC/E, Acción Cultural España; Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID); Manifesta, International Foundation Manifesta (IFM), The Netherlands (2010-2011); Plat(t)Form, Winthertur, Zurich; Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Chile; or the ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami.
Her work is present in collections such as the C.A.2M. Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Madrid; Fundación BBVA; Fundación AENA; Real Academia de España en Roma; UNICAJA or the IVAM, Valencia as well as in private collections in the United States (Whitney Museum's Board Member, NY), Latin America (MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago de Chile) and Spain (Seguros DKV).