Rosa Pascual is a London based socially engaged multidisciplinary visual artist.
Her work is conceptual and visually based due to her background in photography, media studies, scenography and storytelling with a high interest in space, movement, and sound. Her work ranges from installations, to video-dance and life performance.
Rosa Pascual is also founder and director of Art Collaboratif, platform focusing on collaborating with other art forms and artists and lately with other disciplines such as science, psychology, politics and social justice. Since then, her work has been heading towards more socially engaged projects working for and with communities, setting projects aiming at having a collective sharing of the creative process where participants become artists themselves and experience the journey as well as the end result.
Projects that look at issues that concern them and inviting participation and connection, where gender, age nor background are a barrier. This gives her a huge and gratifying sense of purpose and fulfilment. Her career has put her on a path of approaching art to the community in a more democratised, enjoyable and experiential way, becoming a shared experience.
One of her main projects is LOST, a video installation based on the adoption scandal that took place in Spain between the late 30’s and early 90’s, known as the Spanish Stolen Children. A decade of researching and internationally touring LOST has taken her into investigating for her new body of work on baby and young people trafficking world wide. At the moment she is focusing on the US Adoption Re-homing Cases where potential adoptive parents can attend catwalk shows where children are paraded to be picked and later on, can be returned if parents are dissatisfied; another international project she is in development of collaboration is Reconnecting Cambodia Project Through DNA, created after Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge family disintegration all over the country alongside contemporary children snatching for international adoption business with an effort to reunite adopted Cambodians spreaded throughout the globe; and in the UK, she is looking into scarily numerous cases of young people diaspora’s forced into sex labour and criminality.
Unfortunately, the list of countries with their irregularities goes on: Germany, France, China, Australia, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, Rumania, Nepal, …
On a very different matter, her other main project, Self by Choice, looks at the neuroscience of body image and how it can impact our sense of self-worth and identity. She has been collaborating with neuroscientist and eating disorders scientist from King’s College, a child psychotherapist and the Head of Westminster NHS for the elder, alongside to a vast research and design team. She has been participating at festivals, developing experiential workshops for schools in Camden, started lecturing, and at the moment she is also in the process of developing workshops online for adults.