CULVER CITY, CA.- A majestic curtain of paper tendrils undulates diagonally across Bandini Art, Culver City, in Castillo’s new installation Curve, closing May 19, 2007. Spills of paper twist and curl from the ten-foot tall installation like tumbling hair, or the shavings from a woodworker’s plane.

This is the first time that Castillo has explored the qualities of shredded paper. In previous installations, Castillo used synthetic hair and unraveled rope to mimic the locks that were the starting point for her work – her own hair and that of her loved ones. Multi-layered works spoke of hair as a source of identity and stereotype, of fairytale and ritual, embodying ideas of power and value.

By turning to pristine white paper, Castillo replaces soft raw fibers with the manufactured hardness of processed organics, and adds another element to her ongoing investigation into the sculptural, cultural and visceral impact of materials that she describes as ”commonplace and yet charged with association and meaning”.

Transformed from natural fiber to ubiquitous sheets, paper is literally and figuratively the currency of the modern world, whether in the form of banknotes, contracts, books or invitations, it carries the freight of law and the many aspirations of human society. Curve is paper, in all its monumental power.