Curating, for Lorena Moreno Vera, is a practice of learning and unlearning through conversations with artists, researchers, and diverse communities from various backgrounds. Each project unfolds as a dialogue with a place, revealing its layered histories, symbolic and material dimensions, and entangled human and more-than-human narratives. No space is neutral; every site carries geopolitical, ecological, and cultural imprints that demand careful navigation. Lorena’s curatorial work seeks to acknowledge and activate these layers, fostering environments where art becomes a site for exchange, critical thinking, and possibilities. At the intersection of art, environment, and traditional knowledges, her practice explores alternative narratives through sonorous and visual phenomena, drawing from philosophy of science, literature, ecology, and oral tradition. Sound plays a crucial role, not only as a medium but as an elemental force that shapes perception, memory, and presence. She is interested in its physical and psychical effects, in how it resonates through bodies and landscapes, and in how it bridges temporalities and epistemologies. Collaboration is central to her approach. Lorena engages with artists, musicians, scientists, storytellers and local actors to develop projects that transcend singular perspectives, often weaving together Western and non-Western knowledges.
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Summer 2026
Curator
Research Focus
For Dwell Here Lorena’s curatorial practice centres on the transformative potential of listening as an embodied, ethical, and sensorial method for reimagining institutions, histories, and shared futures. In this regard, she will approach the museum as a porous site of resonance, where sonic and vibratory practices can expose both the visible and inaudible legacies of empire, while cultivating collective forms of care, responsibility, and renewal. She is particularly drawn to how sound and vibration might be mobilised to attune the museum to erased or marginalised histories, to animate cultural shifts, and to engage planetary questions that exceed anthropocentric narratives.
More about the Dwell Here Residency
Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling. IMMA encourages reflection across the following themes to consider geographical, historical, political and cultural concepts of Ireland as a starting point to expand and connect international contexts through similarities and differences:
Technologies of Peace – to consider commemorative landscapes and memories of peace (as a dream, movement, or value) while generating perspectives on sustainable coexistence.
The Irish Paradigm – Welcomes artistic research that creates intimacy and connections, while celebrating the perceived agility and freedoms of operating on the periphery. As a small island on the edge of Europe, Ireland often has a challenging relationship with ‘the centre’.
The Museum as a Site of Vibration – consider how the museum and site can create new vibrations and rhythms within the built legacy of empire. How can museums make visible cultural shifts, including erased, censored or marginalised histories, as well as sustainability, planetary care, sharing and hospitality.