Statement
Printing Error (Transplant) (2020)
Color digital photograph, printing error caused by plotter.
BajoRufián is a symbiotic being
that functions through two consciousnesses (María Bajo and Marta Rufián) and whose artistic production is based on the thought and experience around gender, sex and sexuality from a feminist and queer/cuir perspective. It’s an identity that flows between the institution and the periphery, and that uses a scavenger methodology that is fed by the investigation, the experimentation, the autoethnography and the collaboration. Its permanent processual state culminates in different projects whose forms appear like anomalous.
Since 2018, these two minds have worked together to reflect about hegemony and propose new critical realities. Both of them belong to a dimension where spaces are inhabited by beings who design their own bodies and sexualities with affects. His multidisciplinary artistic work is presented as a weapon to fight for those who live there, works in which his life experience is diluted, intermingling with the experience of them collaborators and forming part of a collective in a liquid state.
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ACADEMIC AND ARTISTIC RESEARCH ACTIVITY
– Predoctoral research staff, PREJCCCM grant co-funded by FSE+, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2023–2027.
– Member of the INDEVOL Research Group (Evolving Dynamic Interfaces), Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2025– / 2023–.
– Member of MIDECIANT (International Museum of Electrography – Center for Innovation in Art and New Technologies), Cuenca, 2025– / 2023–.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
– Teaching collaboration, teaching support, in the course Photography 1st, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2025.
– Collaborative methodologies for working in the public sphere: sex-dissident perspectives, teaching collaboration, workshop in the course Artistic Practices in the Public Sphere, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2025.
– Queer Urbanisms: Artistic Practices for Positioning Ourselves in the City, teaching collaboration, workshop in the course Artistic Practices in the Public Sphere, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2024.
ACADEMIC TRAINING
– PhD in Research in Humanities, Arts, and Education. Supervised by Ana Navarrete and Ricardo Cotanda. University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2024–.
– Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts (feminist and cuir/queer perspectives), Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 2024– / 2021.
– PhD in Research in Humanities, Arts, and Education. Supervised by Ana Navarrete. University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2022–.
– Master’s Degree in Artistic Production, Polytechnic University of Valencia, 2022.
– Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, with a specialization in audiovisual projects, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2020 / 2020.
PUBLICATIONS
– Snack Methodology: A Counter-Definition, in Matorralex, a Queer Rurality. Discursive Exchanges on Dissident Realities and Practices, Liminal Spaces, Folklores, and Heritage, 2024.
– Consuming the Narrative (Letter to Kathy), in Issue No. 2 of Cuir Zine: Queer Imaginaries, June 2024.
– BajoRufián, in @XES. Artistic proposals for a new social architecture, Madrid, co-published by AECID and the Ministry of Equality, 2024.
– Penetrating with the teeth, in Hormones Released, publication belonging to SuperBollo vs. Binary Code, by Parole de Queer and GalletaMaría, Madrid, Kaótica Libros, 2024.
– Becoming plural, collective writing produced in the workshop To plot and imagine the end of this world, taught by Lucía Egaña Rojas, Pluriversidad Nómada, 2024.
– A transfeminist and anti-speciesist BDSM: fragments of an internal monologue in two voices, in Parole de queer, 18 December 2023.
– Methodologies for change. Mutations, entanglements, and embraces, in MUECA :S Conversations about flawed methodologies, Barcelona, Bellaterra Edicions, 2023. Book chapter.
– The imaginary of identity. Queer perspectives and dissident representations of a society in the shadows, Master’s Thesis, selected as one of the best theses of the 2021/2022 academic year.
– Territoris Invertits, catalogue for the exhibition Inverted Territories: Art and Sex-Dissidence on the Mediterranean Shore, MUCBE, Benicarló, 2021.
– Non-binary notes on female masculinity, self-published, related to the MUECA Master’s Thesis, 2021.
– An artistic approach to female masculinities, Master’s Thesis, 2021.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
– GRUDE Project. MIDECIANT, presented at the Webinar on Good Practices: Participation and Communities in Museums and Art Centers, Museums for Equality Network, 2025.
– Stone*-Aces’s deeds. Perspectives from the affections, Congress With Q of Love, Complutense University of Madrid, 2025.
– A stone butch body-archive: artistic imaginaries of lovers, paper, Maricorners 2024: IV International Congress of LGTBIA+ and Queer Interdisciplinary Studies in Spanish, University of Valladolid, 2024.
– Bodies at the crossroads: the trans-lesbian image of desire, panel coordination, Maricorners 2024, University of Valladolid, 2024.
– A BDSM stone butch: artistic practices for touching and penetrating, IV International Congress on Sexual Diversity Studies in Ibero-America, University of Girona, 2024.
– Penetrating with teeth: stone* and asex practices from BDSM, Post-Sexualities II Congress, Complutense University of Madrid, 2024.
– Sex-dissident alliances: Mapping the sex work of trans people in Barcelona, Acción Spring(t). VII Performance Art Congress, Complutense University of Madrid, 2024.
– Snack methodology: liminal times and processes, Matorralex Seminar, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2024.
– Transmasculine creatures in mainstream animation: absence and cryptids, 1st International Conference on LGTBIQ Childhood and Adolescence, Rey Juan Carlos University, 2023.
– Transbutch representations: artistic methodologies for reconnecting with our bodies, Post-Sexualities Conference, Complutense University of Madrid, 2023.
– Artistic representations of feminine masculinities: an approach from an archive between the 70s and the present, International Congress on LGTBIQ+ Diversity, University of Salamanca, 2023.
– Various authors, Round Table IV: Stressing the Format to Embrace Failure, round table, SIPADI, Miguel Hernández University, 2021.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
– Nosymmetries, La Capella Art Center, 2024.
– III Mail Art Call of MIDECIANT, Acua Hall, Cuenca, 2024.
– Post-Sexualities, within the Post-Sexualities II Congress, Complutense University of Madrid, 2024.
– Inverted Territories: Art and Sex-Dissidence on the Mediterranean Shore, MUCBE, Benicarló, 2021.
– Horror Vacui, Kanoko Hall, Cuenca, 2020.
RESEARCH AND ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
– Nosymmetries, artistic residency, Idensitat + La Capella Art Center, part of Care Ecologies 2023–2025, Barcelona, 2024.
PUBLISHING AND FANZINE FAIRS
– PichiFest, fanzine festival, La Enredadera, Madrid, 2023.
– LesBiFriends, art fair and bibollera gathering, La Ferroviaria, Madrid, 2023.
COURSES, SEMINARS, AND CONGRESSES ATTENDED
– Congress With Q of Love, Complutense University of Madrid, 2025.
– 1st International Congress on Fat Studies. Overflowing the norm, fattening the academy, UNGS, UCM, and UAM, 2025.
– Look Closely. Training capsules. Reina Sofía Art Center National Museum, 2025.
– Memory and Desire, Rey Juan Carlos University & Complutense University of Madrid, 2024.
– PRISMA Conference, Rey Juan Carlos University & Autonomous University of Madrid, 2023.
– To plot and imagine the end of this world, with Lucía Egaña, La Parcería, Madrid, 2023.
– Shout, speak, breathe. Processes and tools for a feminist future, with María Alcaide, linked to the Injuve Grants for Young Creation 2021/22, 2023.
– Maricorners, III International Congress on LGTBIQ+ Interdisciplinary Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, 2023.
– AAAA II Speculative International Congress: Art, Alliances, Affections and Something More*, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 2021.
– The disputed gender 30 years later, Polytechnic University of Valencia — with Equipo Palomar, Jesús Martínez Oliva, and O.R.G.I.A Collective, 2020.
– Transeducar, feminisms and dissidencies LGTB, X International Research Conference on Art Education, University of Valencia, 2020.
– What Is Contemporary Art?, MoMA, 2020.
– Think the impossible. Laboratory of Collective Artistic Research and Production, University of Castilla-La Mancha — with Servando Rocha, Pablo España (Democracy Collective), Saioa González, and Javier Montero, 2019.
– Dissident gender perspectives in the audiovisual, La Casa Encendida, Madrid — with Elisa McCausland, Diego Salgado, and Paula López Montero, 2019.
– Workshop on Introduction to Conservation and Restoration of Works on Paper, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca — with Maite Martínez López, conservator at IVAM, 2019.
– Waste Workshop, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca — with Daniel Canogar, 2018.
– Course on Production of Audiovisual Cultural Content, Faculty of Audiovisual Studies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2017.
– Course on Direction of Audiovisual Cultural Content, Faculty of Audiovisual Studies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2017.