Lou x Eva (Exhibition - Sendero Hotel, May 2026)

There are forms that nature repeats. In this exhibition, Lou Castillo and Eva Fakatselis begin from the same intuition: that the body and the landscape are not separate territories, but different versions of the same living system.

Fakatselis arrives through paper and pigment. Her trees are at once organisms and icons: their branches blur into vascular networks, their presence invoking both biology and prayer. The tree is not background landscape but the protagonist of a system where the spiritual and the corporeal circulate together, with no clear boundary between one and the other.

Castillo arrives through the earth itself. Her totems condense years of research into a single object: the spines of the pochote tree, the trails of snails, and the language of textures, colors, and modules from Shifting Territories.

These pieces map, connect, and mark presence in a place with the same silent logic by which a tree occupies its territory. These protagonists carry the memories and experiences we accumulate throughout life.

What unites these two artists is a shared way of understanding the world: everything is connected, and that connection has shape, has line, has texture. Castillo finds it in the trail a snail leaves on sand, a tiny path that is also a map, a network, a writing that a place makes upon itself. Fakatselis finds it in circulatory systems, in those networks that keep the body alive and that, in her work, become indistinguishable from tree branches or roots pushing through the earth. Both are tracing, each from her own material and history, the same question: how does life flow between things? What connects us to the place we inhabit, to the people around us, to ourselves?

This exhibition offers no single answer. It proposes, instead, that to look closely at a spine, a vein, a trace upon the clay, is already a way of belonging.