Testimonials & reviews
Luca Curci - Art Curator, Collector, Architect, Founder, and CEO of ITSLIQUID GROUP
"Crystal Evans is a deeply refined and visionary artist whose photographic practice reveals an extraordinary sensitivity to both place and displacement. Her work exists in a delicate balance between the tangible and the immaterial, capturing what is seen, and what is deeply felt. As a synesthetic artist, her experimental use of colour transcends the visual to evoke atmosphere, memory, and emotion, creating immersive experiences that speak directly to the senses.
Her visual language is rich with poetic nuance, and each composition seems to open a portal between inner and outer worlds. I was personally struck by the layered complexity and subtle power of her images, which reveal a profound connection to space, time, and identity.
Crystal’s presence in our exhibitions, from Venice during the Biennale to Barcelona and soon Rome, has enriched the curatorial narrative of each show. She is a true contemporary voice, whose art resonates internationally with curators, collectors, and audiences alike."
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Amaride Ferrante - Art Curator, Italy
“Crystal D. Evans' photography and poetry work is profoundly evocative: each piece resonates with emotional and philosophical depth. I truly admire how she weaves together visual storytelling with poetry to explore themes like memory, movement, and human resilience. The balance between stillness and transformation is incredibly moving, and her ability to express the silent echoes of identity, labor, and presence within physical and metaphorical spaces is powerful. These works don’t just invite reflection, they demand it. Congratulations are due to her on creating such a rich, layered, and emotionally intelligent body of work.”
Parneet Kaur, Poet, Founder of Poetry for Planet, #COP29 Fellow Contributor, International Activist
"Crystal Evans' poetry is beautiful and powerful. She has a wonderful voice and the ability to weave wonderful words. I find her video art and her poetry simply inspiring."
Elimane aka ‘Royal Studio’, Award winning photographer, Saint Louis du Senegal
"Crystal D. Evans listens to the inner rhythm of her creations, weaving a sensitive thread between the visible and the invisible. There’s a delicate tension in her work—between clear intention and open interpretation—that feels almost poetic in its subtlety. Her constellation of mediums forms a living terrain of exploration, where presence, perception, and the body engage in what is akin to a choreographic practice. She moves fluidly between intuition and concept, grounding her process in a phenomenological awareness that reveals as much as it dialogues."
Jo Court - Award-winning Photographer and Chair, Canterbury Photographic Society
“Crystal D. Evans has a rare ability to express universal truths through profoundly personal work. Her What Remains collection—poetically composed, technically exceptional—left a lasting impression when I first saw it at the Herbert Read Gallery. It’s no surprise her work is gaining international attention; it is powerful, relevant, and deeply resonant. Hearing her speak about her next body of work, Grit and Grace, and experiencing some of the poetry and conceptual depth behind it was incredibly moving. Crystal is undoubtedly one to watch—I’m excited to see where she takes her practice next.”
Dr. Chris Little - Fine Art Sculptor, UK
"Crystal Evans' sculpture work is fundamentally about people - focused on the human form but making the viewer look deeper into them and as a result become increasingly aware of their own interpretation. She offers a strong sense of enquiry - figures bow, clutch, and grasp. It's an inspection and observation of the Self, the Other, and Commonality. Whether the concept touches on universal human experiences such as anxiety, loneliness, or loss - Evans' work holds empathy and gives such love and attention in its attempt to understand people - especially when endangered by their environment or stripped back and shown to be vulnerable. Her sculptures are full of pathos - often fine yet fragile in their form. Others stand bold and assertive with inscrutable expressions inviting the viewer to take the opportunity given to draw their own conclusions and in so doing question their own meaning making. Clever, compelling, and vital."
review of Barcelona Contemporary 5th Edition
Barcelona Contemporary 2025: Featuring Crystal D. Evans
BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY – 5TH EDITION 2025
"ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the great success of the 5th edition of BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2025, an international exhibition of photography, painting, video art, installation/sculpture and performance art, at ITSLIQUID Art Space – Barcelona.
BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2025 analyzed the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural / physical / social / urban settings in contemporary times, through two main sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES. MIXING IDENTITIES analysed the hidden parts of our identities and their infinite modes of expression, through an immersive experience in the fascinating universe of the labyrinths of our consciousness. While FUTURE LANDSCAPES focused primarily on the concept of boundaries and structures between body, mind and soul, human identity and the city, space and ground, transforming surfaces into an open flow of pure ideas.
The featured artists of BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2025 transcended geographical, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries, offering works that not only reflect the multiplicity of contemporary identity, but also provoke meaningful dialogue on how we navigate space, memory, and self in a rapidly changing world.
Crystal D. Evans is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice weaves together photography, sculpture, painting, illustration, video, sound, and poetry to explore the fluid terrain of identity, memory, and perception. Rooted in phenomenology, her work investigates how we engage with the world through emotion, bodily awareness, and cultural memory. Guided by intuition, Evans allows each material to speak and transform organically, embracing fragmentation, distortion, and imperfection as essential components of meaning-making. Her process is deliberately open-ended, often incorporating unresolved forms and unexpected juxtapositions to reflect the non-linear, fragile nature of lived experience. Whether composing a photo-poetry book or assembling sculptural installations, her objective remains consistent: to create emotionally resonant works that linger in the viewer’s body and consciousness – opening pathways for connection, disruption, and transformation."
The Art Fair opened its doors on July 18, and ran until July 28, 2025.
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organized by ITSLIQUID Group
curator Luca Curci
general manager Giulia Tassi
project manager Amaride Ferrante
project coordinator Annachiara Recchia
collaborator Helena Gomez, Vittoria Vallebella
graphic designers Marina Caracciolo, Alberto Grimaldi
18th - 28th July 2025
HUB/ART BARCELONA Carrer del Doctor Trueta, 183, 8, 6, Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
critical review of global solo show
A Quiet Reckoning in Venice: 'What Remains' by Crystal D. Evans
"In a city where spectacle often overshadows subtlety, What Remains by Crystal D. Evans stood apart as one of the most contemplative and emotionally arresting exhibitions to appear during the 2025 Venice Biennale. Installed with striking restraint in the atmospheric halls of Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello as part of the Borders: Hybrid Identities programme, Evans’ multidisciplinary solo show offered viewers not a pronouncement, but a profound invitation: to listen, to feel, and to see anew.
Evans—a British-Malaysian-South African artist whose international reputation has grown steadily over recent years—brought together video art, black and white photography, fractured ceramic sculpture, poetic textworks, and a hauntingly composed soundscape into a unified installation that reverberated with personal grief and collective memory.
Drawing from phenomenology and Stoic philosophy, Evans structured What Remains around five conceptual “chapters”: On Love & Growth, On Wisdom & Strength, On Work & Play, On Hope & Courage, and On Death & Legacy. Yet, nothing about the show was linear. Instead, viewers wandered through layers—fragments of image and verse, broken bodies cast in stoneware, pulses of sound like breath, like heartbeat, like memory struggling to surface.
At the centre of the installation was a ceramic assemblage of broken limbs and hollowed torsos—neither grotesque nor sentimental, but deeply human in their vulnerability. Nearby, photographs hovered on the edge of figuration and erasure, their subjects caught between presence and disappearance. Projected text flickered across surfaces like thought made visible. “What remains is never fixed—only glimpsed, reframed, and reimagined,” Evans wrote in one quiet corner of the room, a line that echoed long after leaving.
What was most remarkable, however, was the emotional intimacy of the work. Without resorting to spectacle, Evans created a space of stillness—radical, in the context of Venice—that allowed for genuine reflection. Her integrated poetry, handwritten and overlaid across some photographic works, was both lyrical and philosophical, grounding the viewer in the paradoxes of loss, resilience, and remembrance.
Critics visiting the Biennale have rightly described What Remains as
“a profound, timely, and viscerally sensorial experience that confronts the complexities of identity, grief, and embodiment in today’s fractured world—inviting reflection not only on what is seen, but on what remains unseen: beneath surfaces, between words, and within us.”
In a Biennale filled with overt political statements and often overwhelming multimedia displays, Evans offered something rarer: stillness with depth, silence that speaks, and work that demands not just our attention, but our presence.
This is an artist working at the height of her conceptual and emotional powers, unafraid to sit with complexity and ask uncomfortable questions. What Remains was not just one of the standout exhibitions at the 2025 Venice Biennale—it was one of its most necessary."
E. Marcelo, Art Critic & Reviewer, Contemporary Art Italy
23rd May - 6th June 2025 During Venice Biennale 2025
BORDERS ART FAIR, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Cannaregio, F.TA SAN ANDREA 4118, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy