Sofía Ruvira-Fernández is an artist, writer and researcher based between NY and Galicia. 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 interventions, exploring the relationships established through time-matter-memory-body-word. As a trained dancer, she has been closely studied physical theater and contemporary movement expression in USA, Spain and Italy. She has performed works by José Limón, Carl Flink, Martha Graham and Philip Foster, among others. Her art pieces have been exhibit in Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, CA+MP Recovery Lounge, Museo Interactivo de Historia de Lugo, Solaina Galería (Galiza), Chashama Gala (USA) and Torn Page (USA), The Tank Theater, (NYC) Festival Plataforma (Galiza).
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. 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 the expanded poetry book Alalá (Arteidolia Press, 2024), the novel Os corpos fráxiles (Aira Editorial, 2024) and is one of the authors featured in the anthology Letras Con Morriña (Deza Migrante, 2023).