Javier Ruiz del Río
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Index rev. 09 / 2026
fig. 1 — Detours in the dumbwaiter, Docks Dora, Turin, 2026Most recent project
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Research
Who makes art, and how do they make it?
I am an anthropologist of Italy and Western Art, with a particular interest in fabricators and production processes. My doctoral research, entitled ‘The making of art: sculptors, artisans, and artists in the Apuan Alps’, was based on fourteen months of fieldwork in a Tuscan industrial district in 2020-2021.
Interests
Contemporary art
Southern Europe
Craft & enskillment
Industrial labour
Automation
Cinema
Social ontology
Historical anthropology
fig. 2 — Tuscany, 2021. Still from Once and for all.
Teaching
Associate Lecturer
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Affiliated Lecturer
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Education
PhD Social Anthropology, Cambridge2023
MPhil Social Anthropology, Cambridge2018
MRes Anthropology, St Andrews (Deans' List)2017
Fellowships
PDRA, St Edmund's, Cambridge2023–present
Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Research Fellowship, Henry Moore Foundation2024
Study of archival sources on Moore's Italian production.
Research fellows 2024 ↗
Viaggio a Palermo Fellowship, Bibliotheca Hertziana and Fondazione Palazzo Butera2026
Archival research on Luchino Visconti and Sicily.
ARTWORKS
I produce most creative projects with my collaborator Federico Pozuelo, as the art collective Prom. Since 2020, we are supported by Stichting Prom Art Collective, a Dutch non-profit foundation experimenting with other ways of making art.
stichtingprom.nl ↗