YAMILY CASTILLO
Born in Cuba and raised in Italy, Yamily Castillo’s early life was shaped by movement, cultural contrast, and periods of instability.
These experiences formed a lasting awareness of transition, later evolving into a search for grounding, structure, and permanence. A shift occurred in adulthood, through motherhood and a period of personal rupture, where the need to create became a means of anchoring. What began as a private necessity developed into a deliberate and sustained artistic practice, leading to the creation of Atelier Viento, an extension of her need to belong, to build community, and to establish a place of her own.
Castillo’s work is defined by material. Using sand, coffee, mineral compounds, and layered mediums, she constructs surfaces that carry both weight and motion.
Texture is not decorative but structural, guiding composition, forming rhythm, and establishing presence.
Some works hold a rigid, architectural quality; others remain fluid, shaped by movement and release. Rooted in natural elements and geological references, the materials themselves become language, expressing time, accumulation, erosion, and endurance.
Working with organic materials as a means of creating something both real and enduring, her practice exists between instability and permanence, where surfaces settle, hold, and remain. Each piece carries a sense of time embedded within its material, inviting a slower, more intentional way of seeing. The work is not about resolution, but about the moment of grounding, where change no longer disperses, but begins to take form.
