Pau Malo at dusk, reaching toward a glowing wax-dipped chandelier
Mexico City · Fine Art · Encaustic · Immersive Environments

Wax, fire, and the memory of matter.

Working primarily with wax, mineral pigments and copal to create encaustic objects, botanical lamps, relief paintings, codices, batik textiles and immersive environments.

Ancient ritual meeting another galaxy: a practice built on wax, fire, textile, earth, and light, from Mexico City.

Selected work

Bodies of work

Material research across wax, textile, fire, and light: each series a room in the same temple.

Memorias de cera: crystal chandelier encrusted in dripping wax, lit from within
Memorias de cera Encaustic coated chandelier
Flora de otro mundo: wax flowers glowing amber and violet on dark branches
Flora de otro mundo Botanical sculpted chandelier
Árbol de la memoria: sculpted wax roses climbing a carved tree panel
Árbol de la memoria Mixed media
Lenguaje I: blue relief painting carved with glyphs and inscriptions
Lenguaje I Encaustic painting
Cartografía de lo invisible: framed serpent scroll drawn in a system of symbols
Cartografía de lo invisible Batik textile
Candlelit ceremonial gathering under a canopy
Ambientes Immersive Environments

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Not objects, but thresholds. Matter remembering what it was, becoming what it will be.
Pau Malo

The studio accepts selected commissions for site-specific works, immersive environments and spatial intervention. Each project is developed in dialogue with its architecture, landscape and context, extending Pau Malo's material language beyond the individual object and into space.

Site-specific installations, immersive environments, sculptural objects and spatial interventions.

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