Carmen is a Junior Research Fellow at MESH since May 2024. She is a visual artist and PhD student in Landscape and Environment at the University of Sapienza in Rome. Her thesis addresses the representation of subterranean landscapes through history, with a focus on art and ecology. Underground Landscapes, subterranean imaginaries through art and ecology aims to analyze the physical and metaphorical impact of human imaginaries of the underground.
She graduated in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain. Carmen carried out stays at TEI in Athens, where she studied photography, and at California College of Arts in San Francisco, as part of the painting department. She accomplished an internship as an Educational Intern in the Children’s Creativity Museum, an interactive art museum in Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco.
Currently, Carmen’s artistic practice unfolds in a world of rapid change and climate collapse, where the term natural is continually redefined and where the concept of the superiority of the anthropos has allowed acute speciesism, landscape exploitation, and an utter lack of solidarity. Through art she aims to create spaces of interconnectedness, environmental awareness, and poetic research. Early works have circled ideas of memory, heritage and playfulness, resulting in urban intervention and the thesis “Where are you Lex?”, and sculptures in neon and her master’s thesis “Play On”. She walks slow and bikes fast.
Contact: carmen.armenterospuchades[at]uniroma1.it