Sofía Ruvira-Fernández is a native Galician artist, writer and researcher. Her work focuses on the
exploration of liminality throughout performance art, movement and writing. Ruvira uses different
mediums such as water, paper, yarn and nature itself exploring the relationships established through
time-matter-memory-body-word. She is pursuing her PhD in literature at Yale University.
In 2021, Fernández received a Fulbright Arts Fellowship to pursue advance dance studies at the José Limón
School in New York City. After that, she has been commissioned to be part of the Ciclo MEXER at MIHL
(Galicia), Newark Art Festival (New Jersey), PAUSA USA (Queens) and Acción Spring(t) (Madrid),
IHRAF at The Tank (NYC) and others. Her art pieces have been exhibit in Centro Galego de Arte
Contemporánea, CA+MP Recovery Lounge and Museo Interactivo de Historia de Lugo, Solaina Galería
(Spain), Chashama Gala (USA) and Torn Page (USA). She was part of the selection of the VII Encontro de
Artistas Novos, 2023, a Flusslab resident in 2023 and a A Casa Vella resident in 2022. Also, Fernández is the
author of Un verano en Manhattan (Distrito93, 2022) and soon of 4 Plays in Galician (CUNY University,
forthcoming 2024), Os corpos fráxiles (Aira Editorial, forthcoming 2024) and Casasoá (Laiovento,
forthcoming 2025). Ruvira is one of the authors featured in the anthology Letras Con Morriña (Deza
Migrante, 2023) in Buenos Aires. She holds the biweekly newsletter Minimal Atomic Thoughts. Alalá is her
first long-length work in English.

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