Daniela Stubbs-Leví

Daniela Stubbs-Leví is a Peruvian artist and poet based in Paris. Her practice creates affective cartographies of absence, mapping the porous thresholds between sound, memory, and place. Her practice treats listening as a transformative technology—one that measures echoes, renders absence palpable, and activates collective imagination.

Working with inaudible frequencies, engraved texts, and astrophysical phenomena, she explores how mourning resonates beyond human scales—in collapsing stars, untranslatable languages, and the vibrations that persist when sources disappear.

Stubbs-Leví is a graduate of Fine Arts from the University of Paris VIII and from the Toulouse Lautrec Academy in Lima, Peru. Her work has been exhibited at spaces like Air de Paris (Paris); The Clemente (New York City); Y Gallery (Lima); and GlogauAIR (Berlin) ; and has performed at  Cité International des Arts; Performance Space New York (NYC); Microscope Gallery (New York City), among many others. In addition, she has participated in art residencies like the NARS Foundation (New York City); Fort d’Aubervillier (Paris); and La Générale (Paris)

During her year-long residency at la Cité International des Arts (2023 -  2024), Stubbs-Leví created the Sound & Poetry Improvisation Series, exploring sonic and gestural manifestations of the spoken word and experimental music through listening and collaboration. In New York City, she cofounded "Current Press," an independent press, an exploratory collaborative platform for books and zine projects made by women.

She currently teaches Sound Studies at La Sorbonne, and is writing an experimental poemaire that gathers ephemera and correspondence, including personal e-mails, scientific articles, and other textual materials used for her ongoing performance series called ce qui reste.