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.
