Naia del Castillo explores the construction of the identity in relationship with the physical and psychological environments.
The artist works between photography, sculpture and performance. The performance takes shape first of all because of her interest in the relationship between the space and the subject. Sculpture is the medium that allows her to render that relationship physical and photography the expressive medium for capturing and reinforcing that idea. The photographic – sculptural actions of Del Castillo shows that the performance of the Thing means an anomaly. The most banal in her hands becomes an attractive and suggestive fetish. It is undeniable that the look of Naia del Castillo is special. When she stops at something that captures her attention - everyday objects, attitudes- is able to transform it, to give it a different meaning, of conferring a new life.
Naia del Castillo (b. 1975 in Bilbao, Basque Country) graduated concentration in sculpture at the University of Fine Arts of the Basque Country in 1998. In 2000 she received her MA with distinction in Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Art in London. Miss Castillo has participated in many international group shows, as Printemps de Septembre Toulouse; Mori Museum; Musee Maeght; Prado Museum; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; Modern Art Center CAC Malaga; The Stenersen Museum, TEA Tenerife Contemporary Art Museum, or Wurth Museum among many others. Her solo exhibitions include at the Museum of Contemporary Art Artium of Vitoria, ParisPhoto05, DeSantos Gallery in Houston, Alcala 31 of the Community of Madrid, Distrito4 Gallery in Madrid, Dels Angels gallery in Barcelona, Contemporary Art Gallery Mario Mauroner in Austria. Among other acknowledgements, she was awarded first prize for the best exhibition in the Festival Off PHOTO ESPAÑA 2005.Her works is part of the collection at Prado Museum, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Reina Sofia, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Maison Europeene de l’ Photographie in Paris, Artium Contemporary Art Museum, La Caixa Foundation among others and in many private collections.
