Strange Animals of the Salzach
video: 2'55' / Music:Daniel Medina/2003-2004
Nature of the work: Public space intervention/video-installation
Description: This work has been shown in different ways so the work changes with the context. In first instance, in Hallein, where the work dealt with the inside-outside idea and with the mimesis of images. On the other hand, the second showing, in Santa Lucía, an old neighborhood of Maracaibo, where the image was at a glance an interrelation a cooling image for a very hot area. The projection was in the wall inside a typical house of the zone, preserving the environment. Synopsis of video: People ( or ducks) swimming in a river, slow movements on water.
Synopsis of video: People ( or ducks) swimming in a river, slow movements on water.
Tiresias Project: Blind Dreams
View of the installation-work and Thesis defense of Tiresias. Museum of Fine Arts. Caracas.2003
Video: independent times / music: Muu Blanco /2003
Nature of the work: video-installation/ Research work
Description: 4 monitors reveal the recurrent dreams of blind people that lost their eyesight when they were 6 years old. The monitors are arranged on white bases and each of them had a separate pair of headphone in front, in order to have an intimate relation with the public.
Synopsis of videos: It comes from the translation into images of conversation with blind people. Constitutes a whole body of research on blind people' s dreams and the recurrence of images within them. Most of the lyrics has being done with the help of musicians and professional writers: texts about memory and loneliness.
Synopsis of videos: It comes from the translation into images of conversation with blind people. Constitutes a whole body of research on blind people' s dreams and the recurrence of images within them. Most of the lyrics has being done with the help of musicians and professional writers: texts about memory and loneliness.
Curriculum vitae
Born 1977 in Venezuela. Molecular Biologist and Artist. MFA in Contemporary Representational Systems. Castillo has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and elsewhere, including Brussels, Salzburg, Hallein, Miami, Belgrade, and Budapest. In the Venezuelan context, she has realized a number of highly recognized exhibitions, obtaining consecutively the prizes of the “62nd National Contest Arturo Michelena” and the “VIII CANTV Youth with FIA Contest.” Her work is referred in publications like “21 Venezuelan Women Photographers/M.T. Boulton,” “Photography in Venezuela 1960-2000/J.C. Palenzuela” and “Open Maps: Latin American Photography 1991-2002/Alejandro Castellote”. At present she lives in Weimar, Germany, where she will obtain her MFA from the Bauhaus University in the course of 2008. Most of her work is depicted in video, photography and installation. Lately, influenced by a new constellation of experiences related to migration, her work has turned into a continuous translation. The subject of her pieces expresses the relation between the observation of the environment and its representation, giving room to contemporary considerations in space semiotics and the assimilation of the work of art as an excuse to impulse an experience. Thus, the work of art is viewed as a performing act.
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