“a slight tilt forward”
Bea Rubio-Gabriel
29 Nov → 3 Feb 2026
Window
West Space presents new work by Bea Rubio-Gabriel in the West Space Window.
a slight tilt forward attends to the politics of labour, with a focus on the systems that shape the way we see ourselves in relation to our work and to each other.
Through performance, writing, and redacted surveillance footage of the artist at work, a slight tilt forward continues 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 that resist the normalisation of fatigue, and centre re-connection and solidarity.
A performance activating a slight tilt forward will be announced soon.
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.
