María Rosa Aránega (Almería, 1995) researches the intersections between memory, politics, structural violence, and social justice, with a focus on the Francoist dictatorship and its transgenerational transmission. Her artistic practice activates the archive—whether official, intimate, or marginal—to reconfigure narratives and construct spaces where the past insists upon the present. She explores the visual and the oral as contested territories. Her work engages the intersection of the intimate and the structural, the personal and the collective, based on a situated memory that displaces dominant narratives and activates alternative temporalities.

Aránega’s methodology is articulated through critical fabulation and crossed memory, understood as a tool of disruption, active crossing of narratives, and displacement. Rather than comparing contexts, she creates spaces of resonance and otherness where different memories intersect, allowing for new forms of reading and repair.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Instituto de las Mujeres, San Telmo Museoa, Centre del Carme, Centro Federico García Lorca, Centro Conde Duque, CAF, and Modus Operandi. She has been selected for residencies and grants including Iniciarte, VEGAP, FACBA, BITE of Arte, Fundación Gala, C3A, and the Residencia de Estudiantes.