Marta Echaves

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Marta Echaves (Madrid, 1990) studied Philosophy and specialized in the Independent Studies Program at MACBA. She coordinates activities for the editorial Caja Negra, and is a researcher, writer, and cultural programmer. Her long-term projects are developed in various formats, focusing on domestic archives, anecdotal accounts, and oral history, using metaphors associated with specific eras to create poetic devices of memory. Some key themes that have informed her research include state repression and violence, mourning and its rituals, the body, work and its neurochemistry, as well as fire and memory. Notable projects include La contrarrevolución de los caballos (Can Felipa, Radio Web MACBA, MNCARS), De las Acechanzas (Domingo Festival at La Casa Encendida), Ese zumbido azul (CA2M), and Tres veces dije fuego (La Capella, PEEPA Matadero). She co-edited Working Dead. Escenarios del Postrabajo (Virreina Centro de la Imagen, 2019) with María Ruido and Antonio Gómez Villar, where she wrote her essay “Trust in Chemical Piety,” which serves as the starting point for the book she will publish with Cielo Santo in 2025.