about the artist
Aranjuez Yawitl—artistic name of LucÃa de Aranjuez Ortizgris MartÃnez— a sculptor and creator of forms that breathe. A graduate of the Visual Arts program at the National School of Visual Arts (ENAP) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her path has been enriched by diplomas and workshops in various media, expanding the scope of a craft she understands as both destiny and discipline. Her language is sculpture. She works with clay, fabric, wood, bronze, and stone as one who invokes ancient memories. For Aranjuez Yawitl, the sculptural craft is at the service of cosmic power: we are nothing more than a means to represent that which transcends us. The only thing that truly belongs to us is the decision of what and with what to give form to that mystery. The daughter of Oaxacan parents, she has lived in Oaxaca City since 2003, a land where matter converses with the sacred. In 2007, she founded her design and art studio, Pangolin Diseños, a space for creation and metamorphosis. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally, taking her work beyond physical borders.













