Blackboxing, 2005

Drawing on archeology and ethnography, as well as the history of both science and culture, Mariana Castillo Deball constructs works that interrogate the ways in which apparently contrary forces such as order and chaos, logic and chance, common sense and irrationality contribute to the development of knowledge and its systematization. Employing different techniques, including performance, sculpture, video, and drawing, or working in collaboration with other artists, Castillo Deball also turns to writing, often dwelling on anecdotes and stories that recount unusual events, apparently suspended between fiction and reality. [...]