Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel is an independent curator, writer and performance artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. They 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. From inverting exhibitions to specifically developing non-ocular centric experiences, to involving collaborative//community practices, they aim to challenge current curatorial and euro-centric modes of exhibiting.

Experimenting with writing as artform and how performance and mark-making may be used as a gateway for cultural understanding and re-connection, they explore systems of care and Resistance Aesthetics, particularly focusing their research on pre-colonial writing systems (namely, Baybayin) in the Philippines and Indigenous (Ipugao) ways of thinking of healing and community. 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’.

Exploring ideas of dislocation, but also inadvertently re-connection, their 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, they imagine new spaces and systems built upon care and solidarity.

The former artistic director of Intermission Gallery, they are currently a participant of What Could/Should Curating Do?’s Curatorial Programme. They are also the Associate Editor for the curatorial journal, As You Go…roads beneath your feet towards a new future and sit on the committee of KINGS Artist-Run.