VISUAL CULTURE
Olga Rodriguez-Falcon: Profile
Olga Rodriguez-Falcon was born in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) in 1971. She attended the Fine Arts School at the Tenerife University for the first two years of her BA. After completing her art training, she moved to Barcelona where she joined the School of Arts at Barcelona University, specialising in Painting and Photography. In 2001 she started working for the Information Department at Tate Modern, London, while realising her MA in Film and Visual Cultures at Middlesex University. In 2004, after having worked for a year in art education, she was awarded a Research Studentship by the Middlesex University in order to carry on with the research initiated during her MA. She is now at the final stages of completing her thesis.
Her research project, titled “The Utopian ‘Other’ in Havana’s Visual Representations”, consists of an interdisciplinary analysis of mainly photographic, cinematographic and literary documents representing the City of Havana in Cuba, from the beginning of the Great Depression until the decade initiated by the political events of 1959. This analysis tries to relate the dominant visual tropes of the Cuban capital with the more generic discourses regarding the visuality of the modern city (usually associated with the idea of the American city) as well as the theoretical corpus discussing urban modernity and visual culture.