About conceptual art

Through her conceptual works, Virginia Casado unfolds a language that interrogates pre-established boundaries. Far from understanding limits as containment, she approaches them as symbolic thresholds points of departure toward expansion and new perceptual territory.

In her installation composed of a cereal box and two pet food bowls, Casado addresses a theme as everyday as it is profound: the domestication of human consciousness. With disarmingly simple materials and gestures, she exposes how certain systems embed routines that dull perception and inhibit awareness. Yet her gesture is not merely critical—it invites a reconnection with the body as a sensitive archive, an organism that holds memory and echoes the original source it emerges from.

In her series of test tubes containing interior mirrors, Casado shifts the gaze inward. These mirrored vessels become more than reflective surfaces; they function as metaphoric instruments that prompt self-inquiry. The viewer, confronted with their own image, is invited to enter a perceptual laboratory—an intimate space of questioning, recognition, and transformation.

Casado’s conceptual practice seeks to “deactivate certainties” in order to restore connection with the essential. Her work proposes an aesthetic of consciousness, where each piece becomes a threshold an opening toward a deeper perception of reality.

These conceptual works are not peripheral to her larger body of work; they represent a coherent extension of a unified artistic vision: one that defines the human being as creative, interdimensional, and ever-expanding. Within this framework, art becomes both language and vehicle a subtle technology of access, decoding, and transformation that reveals the boundless dimensions of our own potential.