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- N\u00c9BOA debuta en Cape Town con Andrea Davila Rubio<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 19 – 22 de febreiro de 2026, Cidade do Cabo, Sur\u00e1frica<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- INVESTEC, Secci\u00f3n comisariada: Tomorrows\/Today 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “Clean Look \/ Daily Proection” <\/strong><\/em>| Andrea Davila Rubio | Stand TT 1<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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A galer\u00eda N\u00c9BOA <\/strong>(Lugo) participar\u00e1 por primeira vez nunha feira internacional f\u00f3ra de Espa\u00f1a na 13\u00aa edici\u00f3n de Investec Cape Town Art Fair,<\/strong> o principal encontro de arte contempor\u00e1nea do continente africano, que ter\u00e1 lugar do 19 ao 22 de febreiro de 2026<\/strong> no Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC)<\/strong>, na Cidade do Cabo (Sur\u00e1frica)<\/strong>. Reco\u00f1ecida polo seu car\u00e1cter pr\u00f3ximo e, ao mesmo tempo, pola s\u00faa proxecci\u00f3n global, a feira re\u00fane destacadas galer\u00edas internacionais e consolidouse como un punto de encontro estrat\u00e9xico para coleccionistas, comisarios, artistas e profesionais do sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00c9BOA <\/strong>foi seleccionada para formar parte da secci\u00f3n comisariada Tomorrows\/Today 2026 \u2013 If You Listen Carefully, the Air Is Full of Laughter<\/strong><\/em>,<\/strong> dirixida pola comisaria Mariella Franzoni. <\/strong>Inspirada na novela The Famished Road<\/strong><\/em>, de Ben Okri,<\/strong> a secci\u00f3n prop\u00f3n un espazo de escoita, atenci\u00f3n e sensibilidade cara aos territorios intermedios: entre o visible e o invisible, o material e o espiritual, a memoria e a especulaci\u00f3n, a claridade e a ambig\u00fcidade.<\/strong> O programa re\u00fane once proxectos individuais de artistas internacionais procedentes de cidades como Mil\u00e1n, \u00c1msterdam, Londres, Johannesburgo, Cidade do Cabo, Barcelona e Lugo<\/strong>, consolidando un di\u00e1logo transversal entre escenas emerxentes e contextos culturais diversos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A galer\u00eda presentar\u00e1 “Clean Look \/ Daily Protection”<\/strong> un proxecto individual da artista Andrea Davila Rubio (Boiro, A Coru\u00f1a, 1995),<\/strong> cuxa pr\u00e1ctica escult\u00f3rica investiga as relaci\u00f3ns entre o coidado, a protecci\u00f3n e a exposici\u00f3n do corpo no contexto contempor\u00e1neo. Para esta ocasi\u00f3n, a artista exhibe un conxunto de esculturas realizadas en resina epoxi, aluminio, cer\u00e1mica e cota de malla, nas que formas org\u00e1nicas e estruturas de contenci\u00f3n activan unha reflexi\u00f3n sobre a tensi\u00f3n entre vulnerabilidade e defensa, en di\u00e1logo directo co marco conceptual da secci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A participaci\u00f3n en Investec Cape Town Art Fair<\/em> marca un fito na traxectoria de N\u00c9BOA<\/strong>, reforzando a s\u00faa proxecci\u00f3n internacional e o seu compromiso co acompa\u00f1amento de pr\u00e1cticas art\u00edsticas emerxentes desde o contexto local cara a circu\u00edtos globais.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00c9BOA poder\u00e1 visitarse na secci\u00f3n Tomorrows\/Today<\/em>, Stand TT 1, do 19 ao 22 de febreiro de 2026, na Cidade do Cabo, Sur\u00e1frica.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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TT1 | ANDREA DAVILA RUBIO | Spain, 1995<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cClean Look \/ Daily Protection\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
NEBOA | Lugo, Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Under the title Clean Look \/ Daily Protection<\/strong><\/em>,<\/strong> Andrea Davila Rubio\u2019s solo project unfolds as an installative choreography of sculptures that approach the body as a site where practices of care, discipline, and defence intersect. The artist examines how gestures associated with self-care, particularly those derived from the cosmetic and skincare industries, are entangled with broader biopolitical ideologies of protection, security, and self-regulation, echoing the logics of militarisation that permeate an increasingly tense, war-driven global landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the centre of the project lies the notion of the \u201cclean look\u201d: an aesthetic regime defined by smoothness, uniformity, and the systematic erasure of imperfection. Popularised through fashion and wellness cultures, it promotes an ideal of (unattainable) perfectionism: an apparently effortless, re-created naturalness produced through intense self-discipline. This form of performative wellness can be genealogically traced back to eugenic and scientific racism, as well as to the interiorised narcissistic psycho-power in which the contemporary individual is no longer conscious of their own subjection. Cleanliness thus functions as a form of aesthetic anaesthesia: nothing protrudes, nothing disrupts. Davila Rubio reads this aesthetic regime not as neutral, but as a disciplinary language that aligns the notion of beauty with conservative and normative ideals. Interiorised practices of body care become inseparable from social legitimacy and self-confidence, forming an invisible armour \u2014one disproportionately designed for female-identifying bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This tension is articulated through a body of new works developed during the artist\u2019s first year at the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) at HGK\u2013FHNW in Basel. In the series Daily Protection<\/em>, chainmail-like sculptures evoke both historical armour and contemporary garments \u2014metallic second skins designed to envelop the body. Small metal amulets, shaped as stars or keys, puncture this defensive logic, introducing fragility, belief, and vulnerability. In Clean Look<\/em>, head-like sculptures \u2014produced in epoxy resin through silicone moulds derived from cosmetic face masks\u2014 appear sealed and expressionless. Encircled by aluminium belts tightened with ceramic buckles, these forms suggest containment and regulation: facial skin becomes a surface to be disciplined rather than a mirror of inner emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Material research (here involving resin, metal, and ceramics) is central to Davila Rubio\u2019s practice. Matter becomes the site where poetics take form, enabling an investigation into zones of ambiguity: between the human and the non-human, the organic and the synthetic, the masculine and the feminine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The accompanying sound piece Prepare, Protect, Disappear \u2727*:\u00b7\uff9f<\/strong><\/em> extends this ambiguity: a text is read aloud, oscillating between instructions for applying a facial mask or cream and those for painting camouflage onto the body. The listener remains uncertain whether the voice is preparing a body for care or for concealment within a war context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Andrea Davila Rubio<\/strong> (Boiro, 1995) \u00e9 Doutora en Creaci\u00f3n e Investigaci\u00f3n en Arte Contempor\u00e1nea pola Universidade de Vigo (2025). En 2021 completou a s\u00faa formaci\u00f3n como investigadora predoutoral no Departamento de Filosof\u00eda do Boston College (Boston, EE. UU.) grazas a unha bolsa Fulbright-Xunta de Galicia. Adem\u00e1is, en 2025 foi becada polo Centro de Arte Fundaci\u00f3n Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Jove para cursar o M\u00e1ster en Belas Artes no Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) da HGK-FHNW University de Basilea (CH) durante os cursos 2025\u20132027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Desde unha mirada cr\u00edtica e situada, o seu traballo prop\u00f3n unha ruptura coas xerarqu\u00edas tradicionais entre o humano e o non humano, expo\u00f1endo formas de convivencia e coidado nas que o corpo e a s\u00faa contorna comparten unha mesma l\u00f3xica de transformaci\u00f3n mutua. A trav\u00e9s da s\u00faa obra, a artista explora como a pr\u00e1ctica escult\u00f3rica pode converterse nunha forma de estar no mundo, e como o corpo \u00e9 capaz de activar v\u00ednculos afectivos e materiais cando se entrelaza con elementos da paisaxe, as\u00ed coma outros de vida coti\u00e1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nos seus traballos, o corpo deixa pegadas, pero tam\u00e9n \u00e9 modelado polo que toca e conv\u00e9rtese nunha superficie viva que acolle e se deixa afectar. A s\u00faa produci\u00f3n m\u00e1is recente afonda nesta conexi\u00f3n entre corpo e materia, e prop\u00f3n novas formas de imaxinar a coexistencia interespecie desde o art\u00edstico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entre as s\u00faas exposici\u00f3ns destacan: A sweaty dispersal into the fog,<\/em> Galer\u00eda N\u00c9BOA (Lugo, 2025); A Friend of a Friend of a Friend<\/em>, der TANK (Basilea, CH, 2025); A que me refiero cando falo de corpo<\/em>, Sarao Studio (Ferrol, 2025); Algo que brilla… ao final do bosque,<\/em> Bienal de Arte Contempor\u00e1nea, Fundaci\u00f3n Sales (Vigo, 2024); atravesar o xard\u00edn \/ entre as d\u00faas esquinas,<\/em> Feira de Arte Culturgal (Pontevedra, 2023); Corpo, afectos, territorio,<\/em> Centro de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo de Huarte (Pamplona, 2023); Snapshots<\/em> de Chantada, Os Casares, Galer\u00eda Vilaseco (Lugo, 2022); Centro Cultural Marcos Valc\u00e1rcel (Ourense, 2022); Feira de Arte Culturgal (Pontevedra, 2021); Novos Valores, Museo de Pontevedra (Pontevedra, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ademais, realizou residencias art\u00edsticas na Fundaci\u00f3n Walter & Nicole Leblanc en Bruxelas (BE) e no Centro de Residencias Art\u00edsticas de Matadero Madrid, grazas \u00e1 Diputaci\u00f3n de Pontevedra en colaboraci\u00f3n ca 32\u00aa Bienal de arte de Pontevedra; en Atelier Mondial en colaboraci\u00f3n co Institue Art Gender Nature (IAGN) da HGK de Basilea (CH) a trav\u00e9s do programa internacional de arte do Museo de Pontevedra; en 12Miradas da Galer\u00eda Vilaseco en colaboraci\u00f3n ca Fundaci\u00f3n Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Jove (Lugo, 2021), en Residency Unlimited (Nova York, 2021), e foi premiada coa Residencia Art\u00edstica Celestino Cuevas en Artesantander 2025 a trav\u00e9s da Galer\u00eda N\u00c9BOA. Tam\u00e9n recibiu bolsas e premios da Universidade de Vigo (bolsa predoutoral, 2020\u20132023), da Deputaci\u00f3n da Coru\u00f1a (bolsa de investigaci\u00f3n, 2023\u20132024), da Deputaci\u00f3n de Ourense (primeiro premio do XVI Certame de Artes Pl\u00e1sticas, 2021) e da Deputaci\u00f3n de Pontevedra (premio do Certame de Artes Pl\u00e1sticas Novos Valores, 2020). As s\u00faas obras forman parte das colecci\u00f3ns da Deputaci\u00f3n de Ourense e da Deputaci\u00f3n de Pontevedra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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