Mariana Castillo Deball is a Mexican visual artist born in 1975 in Mexico City, currently based in Berlin. She works primarily in installation, sculpture, photography and drawing.
Castillo Deball’s practice explores the relationship between objects, archaeology, and systems of knowledge, often examining how cultural artefacts and natural specimens are interpreted, displayed and understood across time. Her work engages with museum collections, historical archives and scientific classifications, investigating the ways human societies have documented and made sense of the natural world and their own material culture. Through careful observation and reimagining of existing forms, her installations and sculptures create dialogue between past and present methods of understanding our environment.
