Bienal de Pontevedra

At the Pontevedra Biennale, Andrea Davila Rubio presents El cuerpo es tierra que se convierte en jardín al contacto con el agua (The body is earth which becomes garden at the touch of water, 2025), an installation in progress that explores the relation between matter, the body, and environment. Through the tube, conceived as both an elemental form and a structural principle, the artist builds a network of connections between human and non-human: ceramic pieces, rolled photographs, water, stainless steel, denim, and resin are arranged in a composition that breathes and transforms itself. The tube emerges as a figure of transit, alluding both to the body's internal systems and to external infrastructures. Its importance lies in its capacity to connect, branch out, and absorb. In this gesture of openness, The Character of Rain by Amélie Nothomb resonates, alongside the essays by Anne Carson and Astrida Neimanis on permeable, liquid bodies, capable of gestation and of being traversed. The installation also incorporates visual references to wet hair, understood as a line, a wave, an extension, ranging from contemporary hairstyles to classical sculptures. Forms cluster, disperse, and lean towards fluidity, creating a poetics of fusion that imagines an alternative way of being.