Andrea Davila Rubio

The Body is Earth Which Becomes Garden at the Touch of Water explores the relationship between the human body and its environment, viewed from a post-humanist, feminist perspective. This offering, which involves sculpture and installations, uses references to water and fluid corporealities as a specific anchorage that translates into physical and poetic associations of forms and materials. Re-imagining ourselves as bodies of water may open alternative ways of being that eschew dichotomies, such as the separation between human and non-human, or male and female. In her work, the artist has been greatly influenced by the theoretical and literary reflections of Luce Irigaray, Donna Haraway, Elizabeth Grosz, Rosi Braidotti, Astrida Neimanis, Anne Carson and Vinciane Despret.

Biography

Andrea Davila Rubio (Boiro, 1995) is a PhD candidate in contemporary art at the University of Vigo (2025). In 2021, she completed her training as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Boston College Department of Philosophy (USA), supported by a Fulbright-Government of Galicia scholarship for the extension of artistic studies. As an artist, she focuses primarily on sculpture, with a particular interest in issues of corporeality and materiality. She has participated in artistic residencies at institutions such as Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation (Brussels, BE), Atelier Mondial-Institute Art Gender Nature (Basel, CH), 12Miradas Gallery Vilaseco and FMJJ (Lugo) and Residency Unlimited (NY, USA). She has recently exhibited her work at Der TANK (Basel, CH), Sarao Studio (Ferrol), Sales Foundation (Vigo), CC Marcos Valcárcel (Orense) and the Pontevedra Museum.

Andrea Davila Rubio is a recipient of the New Values residency programme, a collaboration between the Pontevedra Provincial Council and the Matadero Madrid Centre for Artists in Residence.