Laura Luna Castillo

Multimedia Artist

Laura Luna Castillo is a multimedia artist currently based in Puebla, Mexico. She began her artist practice through photography, later developing an interest in video and film. Luna studied several diplomas on cinematography, screenwriting, and photography in Puebla, Mexico, and Prague, Czech Republic.

While working on ways to express ideas through film and photography, she became interested in exploring other media, such as sound, sculpture and hybrid art forms. Laura completed her BA with Honors on Fine arts and Interactive Media at Prague College, which allowed her to combine traditional visual arts methodologies with new technologies and programming time-based projects. In 2017, Laura completed her MA in Fine Arts, graduating with distinction, specializing in sculpture.

Through these convergences of time-based media, music, sculpture and narrative languages, Luna Castillo explores the mechanisms of memories, imagination and the perception of inhabited spaces through multiple angles and temporalities.

Laura has developed different multidisciplinary projects, where materials and technologies coexist in the forms of audiovisual performances, objects, installation and interactive works. In 2016, Luna was a selected artist in the SHAPE 2016 ( Platform for Innovative Music and Audiovisual Art from Europe) and presented several audiovisual and multimedia projects on multiple international festivals, such as Unsound festival in Krakow, CYNETART festival in Germany, MUTEK festival in Montréal, residency and commission for EMPAC in New York, and a residency in Kamiyama, Japan. Laura has had the opportunity to work in several residencies, developing hybrid installations and performances. Laura's main concern is to investigate the ways in which we experience and think of the places that we inhabit and reclaim as well as the objects that surround us. Thus, time-based installations and kinetic interventions form one of the core components in Luna Castillo’s practice.