He is a writer and art critic. Professor of Art History and deputy director of the Center for Visual Studies of the University of Murcia, he has been director of CENDEAC, Research Fellow of the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts) and Society Fellow of the Society for the Humanities (Cornell University). His essays on art and visual culture include La so (m) bra de lo real (2006) Robert Morris (2010), Materialize the past: the artist as a historian (Benjaminian) (2012) and the edition, with Mieke Bal, of Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture (2010). He has also published the short story books Infraleve: what remains in the mirror when you stop looking at yourself (2004), Cuaderno [...] duel (2011) and Too late to return (2019), the newspapers Present continuous (2016), Diario de Ithaca (2016) and Here and Now (2019), and the novels Attempt to escape (2013, Ciudad Alcalá Prize for Narrative), The instant of danger (2015, Finalist of the XXXIII Herralde Novel Prize) and The pain of the others (2018, Murcian Book of the Year Award). He is a member of the curatorial collective 1er Escalón and since 2006 regularly maintains the blog No (ha) lugar (nohalugar.blogspot.com).