Dr. Montserrat Morcate

Period active: 2021

Montse Morcate (Doctor of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona) is a senior lecturer at the Department of Visual Arts and Design (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona). Her research focuses on the representation of death, illness and grief, both from the field of contemporary art and from visual anthropology. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences and seminars and has published articles and chapters on these topics (Routledge, Palgrave MacMilan, among others, as well as co-editing the book “La imagen desvelada: prácticas fotográficas en la enfermedad, la muerte y el duelo (“The unveiled image: photographic practices in illness, death and mourning) (2019). She is currently a researcher in the project Visibilizando el dolor: narrativas visuales de la enfermedad y storytelling” “(Making pain visible: visual narratives of disease and storytelling”) (Ministry of science, innovation and universities) “and co-PI of the project “Ética de las imágenes de la enfermedad, la muerte y el duelo en tiempos del COVID-19” (“Ethics of images of disease, death and grief in times of COVID-19”), (Fundació Grífols, 2020). She was educated at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UB) and completing her studies in visual arts at Massachusetts School of Art – MIT (USA) and Notthingham Trent University (UK), among others, and in recent years she has carried out various postdoctoral research stays, such as at the Anthropology Department, Columbia University (New York), the Morbid Anatomy Museum (New York), the Department of the History of Science (CSIC) and the CED MACBA, in which she has continued her line of work deepening in other parallel topics such as scientific collections or digital humanities. At the same time, she develops and exhibits her own art work, whose projects are in tune with her field of research.