Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel is an independent curator, writer and performance artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She finished a double-degree BA in Art History and Theory alongside a BFA from the Monash University School of Art, Design and Architecture, and was the recipient of the BAHCxMUMA Curatorial award at the MADANOW19 exhibition. Centring around a collaborative and experimental practice, she has curated projects that aim to challenge current curatorial and euro-centric modes of exhibiting, and experiments with writing as artform.

Here, performance is the act of externalising an attempt to understand the self through language, and in many ways, is also an attempt to go home (wherever home may be). Writing is allowing one the political act to simply ‘be’.

The former artistic director of Intermission Gallery, she is now currently researching systems of care and inter-sectional spaces of Resistance Aesthetics. She is also exploring the Baybayin script of the Philippines as a gateway for cultural understanding and re-connection, and how this may be engaged through performance and mark-making. Exploring ideas of dislocation, but also inadvertently re-connection, her practices examine the diasporic identity as it must navigate through gender conventions, language barriers, political repression, geographical displacement, and the emotional trauma it must bear.

Drawn from this cultural background, she imagines new spaces and systems built upon care and solidarity.