“a slight tilt forward”
Bea Rubio-Gabriel
29 Nov → 3 Feb 2026
Window
Performance, 6 Dec, 3 – 5 am
West Space presents new work by Bea Rubio-Gabriel in the West Space Window.
a slight tilt forward attends to the interconnected politics of labour and capture, with particular focus on the systems that shape the way we see ourselves in relation to our work and to each other.
Writing, performance, and surveillance footage of the artist at work are brought together to continue Rubio-Gabriel's interest in transforming the hierarchical practices of care into acts of "tending to" — in an attempt to re-imagine new spaces and systems built on re-connection and solidarity.
The structures that house our work are alienating spaces,
The deeper I go into my labour the further I lose myself
"You’ve gotta get in that zone."
It’s killing time in the name of safety
A quiet mangling of hours into something manageable,
a slow descent of the body into fatigue.
Program
Performance, Sat 6 Dec, 2pm
Join us for the performance that accompanies a slight tilt forward followed by drinks to celebrate the work with the artist.
This presentation was awarded by West Space in partnership with the Melbourne University's Victorian College of the Arts Honours Program.
The West Space Window is supported by the City of Yarra through their Annual Grants Program.
Bea Rubio-Gabriel is an artist, curator, and writer born in The Philippines now living in Naarm (Melbourne). Performance becomes enacted through quiet gestures to re-imagine translucency and the ‘&/’ as new spaces of dwelling. Moving rhizomatically, their curatorial and writing practice seeks to transform the hierarchies of care™ into the act of ‘tending to’. Their research currently focuses on the moral economy of labour, migrational inheritances, the politics of translation and resonance as a new relationality.
