Her work, which bridges contemporary art with methodologies from the social and natural sciences, disrupts dominant visual languages to activate fragmentary, erratic, and deeply material narratives. Castillo Deball creates installations, sculptures, and publications that destabilize how museums, libraries, and colonial epistemologies have historically ordered the world, re-reading “dead” objects as political and affective bodies that still resonate. Her practice—conceptually sophisticated and poetically rigorous—proposes situated forms of knowledge, where what doesn’t fit—the error, the ruin, the margin—reveals its power as an alternative epistemology. By forcefully occupying international institutions with a deeply critical sensibility, her work stands as one of the most insightful re-readings of history from the perspective of contemporary Latin American art.
