Nayarí Castillo
- Who we are
Molecular Biologist and Artist (MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, DE), living in Graz. She has participated in numerous collective and solo exhibits in cities like Berlin, Brussels, Mexico City, NY, Sarajevo, Seoul, Vienna among others. Has won multiple prizes and bursaries including the Bursary for the Arts of the city of Graz 2015 (AT) and the CIFO prize 2014, Miami (USA). Is mentioned in publications like: Suazo, F. ‘Panoramic of Emergent Art in Venezuela 2010-2012’ | Boulton, M.T. ‘21 Venezuelan Women Photographers’ | Palenzuela, J.C. ‘Art in Venezuela. 1980-2005’. She has attended various residencies worldwide including Skowhegan SPS (2009, USA). At the moment, she works as researcher at the Institute for Spatial Design at the TU Graz and is director of the Daily Rhythms Collective.
She explores space as material by confronting different elements throughinstallation. Using text, objects, photography, architectural solutions and video the installation work relies on site-specific constructs firmly attached to ideas of ‘memorialization’ and dialogue. Most of the interventions engage with history, personal experiences, time and place, claiming a semantic where tools | ideas and devices | forms combine in one discourse. She approaches artworks under two ways:
1/ an individual installation praxis by which problems | concepts are approached within a thematic by translating long term artistic research into space (private, semi-public or public).
2/ collaborations, mainly within different transdisciplinary collective constellations.
Since 2013 she is also part of the artist group: The Daily Rhythms Collective, a coalition of international female artists that take communication as working tool, creating pieces on sensible cartography and fostering equality, inclusion and discussions on feminisms; within the association’s realm interventions in public space and participation pieces are common.
Her projects are all, individually and collectively, developed within a consistent conceptual discipline. All of them approach people, being story-telling and the narration of the personal ‘unusual’ what feeds most proposals. In most of the pieces a careful balance between-fiction and reality — bath the cadence of the pieces.