Natalia Castillo Rincón, Bogotá, 1993
2023 MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Weimar, Ger.
2016 B.A Fine Arts National University of Colombia, Bogota, Col.
2023 MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Weimar, Ger.
2016 B.A Fine Arts National University of Colombia, Bogota, Col.
STATEMENT
My artwork has a profound interest around the concept of inhabiting “the house” as an emotional architecture. From this standpoint, I dialogue with tensions among rigid and soft elements of the house to question the power of domestic structures and their affection. Those ideas are often expressed through three-dimensional mediums, such as sculptures and site-specific installations. To create a malleable architecture, I use materials like plastic, threads, wool, wire, and even air to play on how spaces transit and transform into places and vice versa.
As a Latin American woman living in Germany, my art practice and the inquires about home have been affected by migration, language, and movement issues as inherent aspects of this transitional existence. Here, the physical features of my previous work found on my body a subjective tool to ask why the figure that I represent does not conform to Western standards and how it impacts my ability to inhabit specific environments. Then, through time-based mediums like performances, workshops, and long-duration actions in public spaces, I have used poetry, absurdity, and repetition as creative and critical strategies to research and point out social interactions between places and their corporality.
My artwork has a profound interest around the concept of inhabiting “the house” as an emotional architecture. From this standpoint, I dialogue with tensions among rigid and soft elements of the house to question the power of domestic structures and their affection. Those ideas are often expressed through three-dimensional mediums, such as sculptures and site-specific installations. To create a malleable architecture, I use materials like plastic, threads, wool, wire, and even air to play on how spaces transit and transform into places and vice versa.
As a Latin American woman living in Germany, my art practice and the inquires about home have been affected by migration, language, and movement issues as inherent aspects of this transitional existence. Here, the physical features of my previous work found on my body a subjective tool to ask why the figure that I represent does not conform to Western standards and how it impacts my ability to inhabit specific environments. Then, through time-based mediums like performances, workshops, and long-duration actions in public spaces, I have used poetry, absurdity, and repetition as creative and critical strategies to research and point out social interactions between places and their corporality.
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