Nayari Castillo
“Otherness Rituals”
Nayarí Castillo and Hanns Holger Rutz, Rogues, 2022–25. Photograph: Hanns Holger Rutz.
Collecting contributions for the Forest Encounters Glossary, <rotor>, Graz, 2024.
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Forest Encounters Glossary workshop, Graz Museum, 2024. Photograph: Nayarí Castillo.
Forest Encounters Glossary workshop, <rotor>, Graz, 2024. Photograph: <rotor>.
Forest Encounters Glossary workshop, <rotor>, Graz, 2024. Photograph: <rotor>.
Nayarí Castillo, Spells for Shapeshifting Goes Public, 2024–25. Photographs: Consuelo Méndez.
Nayarí Castillo, Spells for Shapeshifting Goes Public, 2024–25. Photographs: Consuelo Méndez.
Nayarí Castillo, Shrine for the Goddesses of the Wild, Hoke Workhouse, Austria, 2024. Photographs: Daniele Pozzi, Nayarí Castillo.
Nayarí Castillo, Shrine for the Goddesses of the Wild, Hoke Workhouse, Austria, 2024. Photographs: Daniele Pozzi, Nayarí Castillo.
Nayarí Castillo, Spells for Shapeshifting, Neue Galerie Graz, 2025. Photographs: Hanns Holger Rutz.
Nayarí Castillo, Spells for Shapeshifting, Neue Galerie Graz, 2025. Photographs: Hanns Holger Rutz.
Nayarí Castillo, Spells for Shapeshifting, <rotor>, Graz, 2024. Photographs: Hanns Holger Rutz.
Nayarí Castillo, Spells for Shapeshifting, <rotor>, Graz, 2024. Photographs: Hanns Holger Rutz.
As part of the Forest Encounters project, Nayarí Castillo’s artistic research explores human and more-than-human encounters in the forests in and around Graz, Austria. Within this context, she created a multi-perspective body of work centered on otherness and communication rituals. These works include Spells for Shapeshifting, which opens a space for empathy with city forest fauna, The Shrine for the Goddesses of the Wild, which summons magic and invisible spiritual forces, The Rogues (in collaboration with Hanns Holger Rutz), which explores communication between humans and technological beings, and Stratifications (in collaboration with Reni Hofmüller), which pays attention to invisible underground creatures, and, finally, Forest Encounters Glossary, a collaborative publication based on artistic strategies that explore the forest.
You can read more about her work in the Forest Encounters book chapter.