Raquel Villar-Pérez is the Assistant Curator at Photoworks. She has been instrumental in the development of Photoworks Festival., and alongside the director, she leads on Photoworks x The Ampersand Foundation Residency, Photoworks x Liverpool Biennial, and Photoworks X Ballarat International Foto Biennale. She also contributes to Photoworks’ online magazine Photography+. Prior to Photoworks, Raquel worked for Tate Modern as an Exhibitions Assistant. Raquel is a researcher, writer, and curator whose practice focuses on post and decolonial discourses within contemporary art and literature from the ‘Global South’ as a constructed political space. She is passionate about expansive epistemologies that transcend the homogenising trends set by Globalisation and create spaces for solidarity and interconnectedness. She is particularly interested on women's experiences and notions of transnational feminisms. As a freelance, Raquel has curated the exhibitions of contemporary African photography Mohau Modisakeng: Beyond the Liminal Space and Regarding Ourselves at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London, Más Morena by Javier Hirschfeld at the Cambridge African Film Festival, the public programme of Migration: Traces in an Art Collection at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm, and others. She regularly contributes to publications such as C&, C& América Latina and Africanah. Having graduated in Cultural Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2017, she is now a PhD candidate at Birkbeck’s School of Art and has been recently appointed collaborator of the research group ‘Art and Identity Politics’ at the University of Murcia, Spain.

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