In her series of works "Home Unfoldable Home", Angyvir Padilla prints photographs taken by her mother onto fabric, then seals them with wax. The images framing intimate scenes of their home in Venezuela are suspended between preservation and concealment; the wax acts as both protective skin and obscuring veil. Hung from metal supports like laundry left to dry, the prints evoke garments without bodies, memory without stability. The transformation of soft, domestic fabric into hardened form speaks to the fragility and resilience of personal memory, especially in the context of displacement. The pieces recall the material sensitivity of South American conceptual artists like Mira Schendel, who used paper and transparency to explore the tensions between visibility and disappearance. In Padilla’s work, memory is not fixed but fugitive, filtered through layers of time, distance, and care. The installation becomes both an archive and a gesture of mourning: a home rendered in fragments, textures, light enough to fold and carry, the quiet weight of what remains.

Angyvir Padilla was trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (2011 - 2013, BA), the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre (2012 - 2015, MA), as well as the LUCA School of Arts (2016 - 2018, MA). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the M Leuven (Leuven, BE), Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (Friedrichshafen, DE), and Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France (Dunkerque, FR). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb, HR), FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerpen (BE), IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art (Eupen, BE), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris, FR), the S.M.A.K - Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (Ghent, BE), and many others. Recent awards include the Friends of S.M.A.K. Prize (2022), and the “Watch This Space” prize, organized by 50° nord (2022). In 2024, Padilla was selected for the MINO Female Artist Mentorship program with mentors Otobong Nkanga and Léonard Pongo.