Bienal de Pontevedra

Andrea Davila Rubio (1995, Boiro, Spain) is one of the artists selected in the Novos Valores programme, launched by the Provincial Council of Pontevedra (Deputación de Pontevedra) in collaboration with the 32nd Pontevedra Biennial, the Walter Leblanc Foundation (Brussels) and the centre for artists in residence Matadero Madrid. She has also participated in an international residency for artistic research promoted by the Museum of Pontevedra and the Institute Art Gender Nature of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW (Switzerland). From a critical and situated perspective, her work proposes to break away from traditional hierarchies between human and non-human, proposing new ways of coexistence and care in which the body and its environment follow a shared logic of mutual transformation. Through her creations, Davila explores how sculptural work can become a way of being in the world and how the body can activate affective and material bonds when it is intertwined with elements of the landscape, especially with plants. In her pieces, the body leaves traces, but it is also shaped by what it touches, becoming a living surface that both welcomes and allows itself to be affected. Her latest production delves into this connection between body and matter, suggesting new ways of imagining interspecies coexistence from an artistic point of view.