paula roush
paula roush is a Portuguese photographer and educator, based in London. Her artistic practice combines mobile strategies of display & mediation [msdm] crossing many fields, ranging from mobility studies to feminist philosophies, driven by the intersections of archives, photographic materialities and printed matter. Her imprint msdm publications is an independent publisher of artist books and photographic editions.
paula published Hypnotic Highway in 2018, a photobook about the passing of her mother and the hypnotics crisis. Following an emotional breakdown that resulted in a breakthrough, her practice and research has since then been a metaphysical exploration of place, increasingly with a mindful ecological focus.
paula’s interest in the intersections of memory, place and water has resulted in two publishing projects ‘Liquid Memories ~ To Read With Water’, a collective bookwork of photography with water; and ‘Watery Place’, figuring the lakes of the Pyrenees haunted by the double disappearance of Spain’s chemical photography, and of the Bucardo, the Pyrenees goat species, hunted to extinction and briefly resurrected through cloning.