PERLA KRAUZE/ MAY 2025

In collaboration with Cadogan Gallery

born in Mexico City. Her first studies were Graphic Design at the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University in Mexico. She moved to London to obtain a textile diploma from Goldsmiths College and then, she returned as a student of the Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts.

Petrology, Topography and Architecture are in conversation in most of her work, with the appearance of materials like lead, clay and water to stone. Using graphite frottages from stones and pavements and engraved volcanic rocks from El Pedregal, her paintings are abstract topographies and mappings. Stone is a fundamental material in her practice, linked to memory and durability, which can also be transformed and eroded.

In our own words

On a Sunday evening in February, Freddie Burness of Cadogan Gallery, spontaneously proposed to have the first residency in Kardamili with artist Perla Krauze.

Perla Krauze studied the extensive landscape, rock formations and petrology of Mani. In a 12-hour day trip, Perla managed to source and collect different types of rocks & marbles from different villages of Mani like Thalames, Drimos, Profitis Elias, Taenarum, etc.

With all this information, she tried to link the environments of Mani and El Pedregal, as well as going back to her different practices like sewing, creating paintings in combination with sculptures and experimenting with different materials and stones from the area.

Local materials were used such as Greek raw linen, lime from Kalamata, marble dust, etc. Whitewash, xerolithia (a way to place rocks and create a fence or door without cement or glue), suspended rocks on frames using thin wire and frottages on stones are some of the techniques Perla used in Kardamili.

The artist decided to call the series Materia y Silencio and will be exhibited in the SOLO exhibition space of Cadogan Gallery in Milan, 1-30 November 2025.

For inquires on the pieces, please visit Cadogan Gallery.