Pic by: Lorea Alfaro, 2021
Isabel de Naverán (Getxo, 1976) works on projects that bring together art, contemporary choreography and performance. Underlying her research is a preoccupation with the length, the passage and the use of time, focusing on body practices and corporal transmission through the revision of the concept of historical time in ephemeral practices.
PhD in Art by the University of the Basque Country, she is member of the research group Artea, in Madrid. In 2010, de Naverán founded – with Beatriz Cavia, Miren Jaio and Leire Vergara, Bulegoa z/b, an office for art and knowledge, located in Bilbao, and of which she was a member until 2018. Invited by Reina Sofía Museum, in Madrid, she has been Curator of Live Arts in the Public Activities Department along the last seven years (2017-2024) and associate researcher at Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, with The Wave in the Mind
(2021-23), a curatorial proposal in somatic writing.
Frequently publishing essays on specialized books and magazines, she is editor of the compilations Cuerpo y cinematografía (edited with José A. Sánchez, 2008), Hacer Historia. Reflexiones desde la práctica de la danza (2010) y Lecturas sobre danza y coreografía (edited with Amparo Écija, 2013). In a bid to bring together research and writing, she publishes her first books: the poetic essay Envoltura, historia y síncope (Caniche editorial, 2021), the novel Ritual de duelo (consonni, first edition 2022, second edition 2023) and the collective book La ola en la mente (Azkuna Zentroa, 2024). The novel Ritual de duelo was finalist of the Narrative Awards Finestres 2022 and finalist at Basque Country Literary Awards 2023 in the narrative category.