Laura Flórez
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Laura Flórez Castellar studied fine arts at the National University of Colombia, where she graduated
with distinction and with a minor in Artistic Education. She later studied Anthropology at the Institut
d'ethnologie de Neuchâtel and the Geneva Graduate Institute. She has held teaching positions at the
Universidad del Atlántico in Barranquilla (2023), the University of Pamplona (2014) and the Haute
École de Travail Social of Lausanne (2024). She has also been a research assistant at the University of
Kassel, Geneva Graduate Institute, the Colombian Ministry of Culture, and the Museum of
Contemporary Art in São Paulo. Her research draws on aesthetic ethnography approaches and
collaborations with grassroots organization (in connection with community-based archives, aesthetic
practices in contexts of political conflict, collaborative curatorship, transitional justice in Colombia,
and the ethics of research and restitution).
She was part of the curatorial committee for the exhibition La Violencia en el Espacio, Mecanismos y
Paisajes de Necropoder at the National Museum of Colombia (2024-2025). She is co-author with
Lucía Expósito-Cívico of "Promesas que resisten a los modelos de industria académica en Europa:
Alianzas entre investigadoras subalternas"(Promises resisting academic industry models in Europe:
Alliances between subaltern researchers) in O futuro da Universidade (Erismann & Coutinho, Lutas
Anticapital: 2024) and with Lorena Garcia-Cely of "Feralization of Curatorial Practices. The
Encounter Between Community Activists and Curators of Memory Centers" in Eco-operations
(Gomez & Liptay, Diaphanes: 2024).
Since October 2025, Laura has been part of the DAAD Research Grants - Doctoral Program with
the research project "Feral Archives in Transitional Justice: Aesthetics and community-based
practices in Colombia", with Prof. Liliana Gómez as the main supervisor and Prof. Denielle Elliott
(York University) as the second supervisor. Her current research explores knowledge-making
practices in community archives in contexts of armed conflict. She is particularly interested in the
physiology of these materials and how they change and persist through the instability of violence.