Castillo Deball studied in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City and the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
[1] Castillo Deball uses installation, sculpture, photography, and drawing to explore the role objects play in our understanding of identity and history.
Engaging in prolonged periods of research and field work, she takes on the role of the explorer or the archaeologist, compiling found materials in a way that reveals new connections and meanings.
[2] The works presented in her 2019 solo exhibition Replaying Life's Tape at the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, derive from the Ediacaran fossils from the Ediacara Hills, South Australia.
[3] Incorporating methods of scientific display systems into her prints and installations, Castillo Deball considers the contested relationship between time, site, and history.