Lobes Salvaxes

Lobes Salvaxes is a situated research project that grows from Alba Casas’ doctoral thesis and takes shape through collaboration with artist Adrián Riveiro. We delve into the imaginary of the wild and the monstrous within Galician culture, through the figure of the wolf and lycanthropy, engaging with a dissident symbology that subverts official history and offers a critical and emancipated perspective in contrast to the norm.

In a time of disciplining bodies and identities, wolves/she-wolves/lycanthropes emerge as a metaphor for necessary disorder. Beings that disobey binary logics of sex and gender, bodies that resist attempts at domestication and control. Their presence becomes a tool to reflect on sexual and gender dissidence in Galicia: a map of violence, but also of resistance.

During our time at the Residencias Paraíso, we sought to build a speculative genealogy—an embodied drift that weaves through theory and anchors itself in oral culture. Through performance, video art, and soundscapes, we imagine new wolfish narratives, opening space for a collective and ever-changing tale between the real and the fantastic.

A multidisciplinary project that inhabits the margins and proposes a new structure of sensitivity: wild, queer, and disobedient.