ABOUT

Cindy Lilen is a Fibre & Light Artist.

Growing up in a small village in Patagonia shaped her early understanding of the importance of being connected to nature and attentive to what is truly essential. This sensitivity later led her to reconnect with her roots, finding in ancestral South American textile communities forms of knowledge, balance, and meaning that continue to inform her practice.

For many of these communities, the relationship with nature remains active and embodied. Attunement to natural cycles sustains ways of working the land, caring for one another, and cultivating a sense of time rooted in simplicity and presence. Cindy’s work reflects on these forms of wisdom, investigating how material practices can foster well-being, ritual, and reconnection in contemporary contexts.

Working through research-driven and place-responsive processes, she creates sculptural and sensorial works using natural fibres and organic materials such as Patagonian wool, cotton, wood, stone, and light. Slow techniques and careful attention to material behavior allow each work to emerge as an encounter between body, territory, and memory.

Across installations and objects, her practice invites slowness and contemplation, proposing spaces where material, light, and time offer the possibility of renewed ecological intimacy.