María Iñigo Clavo

Her research focuses on processes of resistance and agency towards the persistence of colonial power relations and their genealogies in history. She has worked specifically on Brazil and more generally within the Latin American context and its representation of history through curating and museology. From this perspective, she participates in the reflection on the decolonisation of museums in Brazil, Spain, and Italy through her theoretical and practical work, such as the curation of the intervention in the permanent collection of the Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures of Barcelona by the artist Pamela Cevallos and the artists artisans from the Museo Comunitario de la Pila (2024), or the collaboration with the artist Maria Thereza Alves for the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome (2026).

Since becoming a mother in her forties, she has travelled less and has begun to apply this perspective to the Spanish context in a research exhibition for the Sorolla Museum entitled ‘Before the Leap’ (February 2027) with Olga Fernández López, reflecting on the themes that the famous Impressionist painter addressed from a contemporary perspective through contemporary artists: the patrimonialisation of popular culture, subjugated popular knowledge, tourism, ruralities, and national identities, among others. From this perspective, she was the editor of the journal Art in Translation, at the University of Edinburgh (Taylor & Francis/Routledge) in 2021.