PERLA KRAUZE

Mexican painter and sculptor Perla Krauze studied graphic design before traveling to London and earning a diploma in Textiles from Goldsmiths College. Her work, often using found or discarded materials, deals with time, memory, nature, and dualities — making the overlooked somehow visible. Influenced by modernist architects who have left their imprint on Mexico, Krauze developed her own personal language and discovered that the essence of Mexico itself — its volcanic ruins and archaeological sites, its mythical and primordial qualities — was her most profound inspiration. Says Krauze, “I am interested in materiality, the ephemeral and the permanent, the archaeological collections and cabinets, relationships between objects and lately habitable sculptures and installations within space… Materials, all of them, convey the memory of a place, they talk about where they came from.”