Rosa Gabriela Chávez

Visual Artist

Barcelona

Rosa Gabriela Chávez Rincón (Caracas, 1989) is a visual artist, educator, and cultural manager. She holds a degree in Education with a specialization in Technical Drawing and a Master’s in Photography and Artistic Projects (PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid). Her practice explores analog and experimental photography, installation, and visual poetry. She has developed an international trajectory with exhibitions in Venezuela, the United States, Mexico, and Spain. She is the co-founder of El Avispero Art (Venezuela) and director of Rosca (Spain), combining cultural management, production, and curatorial work. Her most distinctive technique, the “photofold,” creates pieces that dialogue between image, void, and materiality. Her practice connects traditional and contemporary knowledge, generating experiences in which photography becomes a tool for dialogue and social transformation. Recently, she received the 25th L’Escala Spring Grant (Spain) and was a finalist for the Vila Casas Foundation Photography Award (Spain). Portrait credits: Jahel Guerra.

Artworks (7)

In these five images, I capture the way the earth speaks to me when I listen closely. Between Venezuela, Colombia, and Saint Lucia, I learned to follow the light as if it were an ancient memory: a glow that rests on the leaves, that passes through the humidity of the landscape, inviting me to pause. Each scene was born from a gesture of attention, from a silent dialogue with that which grows, breathes, and persists. I do not seek to describe nature, but to allow it to move through me. In each photograph, I try to hold a moment in which the world reveals its secret: the slow vibration of the foliage, the density of the tropical air, the fragility of the territory we inhabit. These images are also fragments of my own memory—a way of returning to places that continue to move within me—and an invitation to share that intimacy with the earth that sustains us.