Bea Rubio-Gabriel: Emerging Curator Mentorship

Curator: Bea Rubio-Gabriel
Mentor: Amelia Wallin
Artists: Aida Azin, Zia Atahi, Tessa-May Chung, Charlie Kol, Leonie Leivenzon/Future Histories Project, John Oh

Flow begins with water. With the oceans, rivers, and waterways which connect us. Seldom noticed these days, though my people would follow them like the veins of the earth. Understanding innately and intimately that this is where life is sustained, but that this is also a place of delicate balance.

The space of liminality is often thought of as the limbo we dwell in before we arrive where we need to be – but really, there is no ‘before and after,’ there is simply the ‘and.’ Like the ocean, we, and everything around us, is always in process. But also, in delicate (and precarious) balance. To acknowledge this space is to recognise that we can be at once inside and outside, understanding and not understanding, making and un-making.

Image: Bea Rubio-Gabriel, 'listen', 2021. Courtesy of the artist.