Giselle Lucia Navarro (b. Cuba, 1995) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer and designer. “She is an emerging voice in contemporary textile art who merges ancestral craftsmanship with conceptual depth, forging a deeply poetic and tactile language that blends literary influence, material intuition, and spatial experimentation.” Her work is exhibited internationally through biennials (Havana Biennial Cuba 2022, 2024), Textile Biennial, Turkey), solo and group exhibitions. Her work is also part of major institutions: Pérez Art Museum, Miami (PAMM), FL, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela, María Cristina Masaveu Foundation, Madrid, Spain.
“Navarro’s process is both meticulous and intuitive. the works are built slowly, thread by thread, balancing tension and tenderness. Each knot, fold, and protrusion becomes an intimate gesture—feminine, forceful, ephemeral. Surfaces are coaxed into relief, swelling into soft-bodied volumes or retreating into folds, creating hybrid presences that blur sculpture, tapestry, and spatial installation.
Across her oeuvre, Navarro conjures a visual synesthesia—an experience that resonates across the senses, making her works not only seen, but profoundly felt.
Rather than presenting objects, she constructs spaces of reverie—abstract landscapes where viewers are invited to linger, remember and feel. Each piece functions as a fragment of a larger metaphysical cartography, threading together past and present, exile and arrival, matter and dream.”
As a writer she is considered one of the most important voices in Cuban literature of her generation. She has won some twenty awards in the genres of poetry, narrative and children's literature.
quotes: Luana Hildebrandt, 2025