Johanna Castillo

Johanna Castillo (1995) is a Dominican human being, a connector (fashion as art - points of empathy - art as fashion) and a love catalyst who integrates reclaimed textiles (body + space + memory), found objects, discarded materials, knots, maps, deconstructed looms, social weaving, questions, el corismo, fluid-intuition based research frameworks, hyper-consumption wonderings, healthy circularities and non binary systems of thought, production and exchange based on her embodied, lived and desired experiences as an attempt to come back to self.
Recent body of work explores the possibilities of creating portals to reclaim herself from imposed and self-imposed identities, realities, spaces and linear notions of time through the creation of other spaces as a means to transform cycles of trauma (unconscious past) into cycles of healing (conscious-present). She is currently in the process of unbecoming, accepting how nature flows through her and is trying to figure out what “tamo online” really means.
Castillo studied Fashion Design and graduated from the Altos de Chavón School of Design, La Romana (2015) and Parsons the New School for Design, NY (2017). Her work has been activated in local and international spaces and it has been recently included in the Jorge M. Pérez collection.