Krystel Liliana Cárdenas (Guayaquil, 1985)

She is a visual artist whose practice moves between sculpture and installation. Her work is primarily articulated through the use of wax, a material that allows her to explore states of transformation, fragility, and permanence. Through this medium, the artist investigates how certain images, memories, or latent forms can acquire physical presence and materialize in space.

Wax plays a central role in her creative process, both for its tactile qualities and for its ability to preserve traces, veil surfaces, and alter the perception of objects. In many of her works, the material functions as a kind of skin or membrane that covers, preserves, or transforms other elements, generating a tension between what is visible and what remains hidden. At times, she also incorporates photography and found objects, expanding the sculptural field toward a more installation-based dimension.

Her practice develops around conceptual pairs such as transition and permanence, interior and exterior, or reality and fiction. Through forms that evoke domestic spaces, architectural fragments, or elements linked to personal memory, her works reflect on the ways in which memories are reconstructed, transformed, or persist over time.

Cárdenas’s work has been presented in several international group exhibitions, including in Munich (Beacon / Paulina Caspari), New York (Fortnight Institute), Oslo (Salgshallen Gallery), and L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (El Sielo), among other venues. Her practice continues to explore the relationship between materiality, memory, and image, positioning sculpture as a space where the intimate and the physical intersect.

Krystel Liliana Cárdenas (Guayaquil, 1985)

She is a visual artist whose practice moves between sculpture and installation. Her work is primarily articulated through the use of wax, a material that allows her to explore states of transformation, fragility, and permanence. Through this medium, the artist investigates how certain images, memories, or latent forms can acquire physical presence and materialize in space.

Wax plays a central role in her creative process, both for its tactile qualities and for its ability to preserve traces, veil surfaces, and alter the perception of objects. In many of her works, the material functions as a kind of skin or membrane that covers, preserves, or transforms other elements, generating a tension between what is visible and what remains hidden. At times, she also incorporates photography and found objects, expanding the sculptural field toward a more installation-based dimension.

Her practice develops around conceptual pairs such as transition and permanence, interior and exterior, or reality and fiction. Through forms that evoke domestic spaces, architectural fragments, or elements linked to personal memory, her works reflect on the ways in which memories are reconstructed, transformed, or persist over time.

Cárdenas’s work has been presented in several international group exhibitions, including in Munich (Beacon / Paulina Caspari), New York (Fortnight Institute), Oslo (Salgshallen Gallery), and L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (El Sielo), among other venues. Her practice continues to explore the relationship between materiality, memory, and image, positioning sculpture as a space where the intimate and the physical intersect.