Xristina Castro/ Autumn Issue

Xristina Castro is a Spanish visual artist based in Wales. Working across photography, video, and material experimentation, her practice engages with themes of identity, memory, hauntology, and the interplay between technology and self-perception. Through alternative photographic processes, digital fragmentation, and projection, her work investigates how personal and collective narratives are shaped in contemporary culture. Moving between still and moving images, sculptural elements, and installation, she creates projects that invite reflection on the emotional and material traces of the past.

Oscillating Spaces

Oscillating Spaces is an ongoing photographic installation exploring time, memory, and materiality. All cyanotypes are derived from photographs of Draco, a constellation in the far northern sky whose name means “dragon” in Latin. By bringing these stars into domestic spaces, the work transforms familiar environments into landscapes where the distant cosmos becomes tangible and accessible. The installation is not site-specific and evolves with each exhibition; every space shapes the work in a unique way. A kitchen transformed into a studio, a ritual space where light, time, and gesture become image. In observing the installation, the viewer engages not only with space but with time: looking at the stars is also looking at time.

The process is documented through a YouTube livestream, offering remote audiences a window into creation, presence, and repetition. Drawing from hauntological ideas, Oscillating Spaces embodies impermanence and layered presence: no two prints are alike, and the seams remain visible, revealing both vulnerability and intention. By inviting viewers to move around and within the work, the installation becomes an experiential space where proximity, distance, and perception oscillate, mirroring how memory, personal experience, and the cosmos intertwine.