Laura Romero

Madrid, 1976. Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid with a specialty in Design, she completed her studies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Innovation in Art and Digital Culture and in various subsequent courses and residences such as the University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins, 'ace Project in Buenos Aires, Image Laboratory at the Autonomous University of Querétaro (Mexico) or at the EFTI International Center for Photography and Cinema in Madrid. Multidisciplinary artist who develops fields such as photography, painting, installation, sculpture and engraving.

Semifinalist in the ARTBOX contest. PROJECT New York 1.0 (By ARTBOX.GALLERY Switzerland) and published by Create! Magazine in January 2021, has more selections in awards such as "City of Palencia for Artistic Creation (Spain) or by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Nuestra Señora del Rosario (A Coruña, Spain)", among others. He has participated in numerous international fairs, this year in ZONA MACO, and in others such as Paris, Mexico, Madrid, Hamburg, Istanbul and Stockholm among others. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries from London, USA, Spain, Mexico, Switzerland, Alaska, Ecuador, Brazil and Buenos Aires or Quebec.

Egg Tooth (When the nest became a cage) (Traces - 06/2023)

Egg tooth is understood as a cone-shaped structure possessed by some species of turtles and crocodiles, as well as some groups of birds, which use it to break their eggs.

The tooth allows the hatchling to pierce the egg shell from the inside and break free.

The egg tooth is essential for the hatching of the chicks of most species; if they fail to develop one, they will die inside the egg.

Departure

Every trip needs preparation. Every road has a beginning. Being ready, a catch of air.

Release the ballast; travel light to arrive without load, without weight.

Virgin, naked.

Start again.

I am looking for an egg tooth like a turtle, that will help me to hatch, to open, to make a split. As deep as possible.

And go out,

and throw me into the sea.