Lily Wicnudel

Lily has created numerous art-sculptures using water and light
Even though it is something utterly vital to our daily existence, water is one of the great enigmas of science. Life is nothing if not the organization of water, without which the human body would be reduced to a few pounds of salty minerals. Like all beings, humans are made of water.

It connects us with the past, with the process of creation and with the very secret of life in the Universe. With the words of Claude Bernard renowned biologist: “When man came out of the sea, he took the ocean with him”.

We, like all mammals, develop during the period of gestation submerged in a warm, salty aquatic microcosm and during the rest of our life, we will feel an irresistible attraction to water that links us to our origin in two ways: individually and as species.

Long before science had discovered that the molecular structure of water can be changed by pressure or temperature, primitive cultures knew that water was a living being.

The Greeks, Romans, Arabs and those in the Great Asian civilizations exalted the therapeutic virtues of water that came from fountains, springs, rivers and beaches..

The explanation for the therapeutic virtues of homeophatic remedies is surely to be found in water and its holographic ability for registering, storing, forcing and multiplying some type of subtle energy, unknown to science, that exerts a powerful effect on human beings.

Some scientists have even put forth the hypothesis that water may register in its structure all the memory of life on earth. With this on mind , it is possible that water holds the ancestral register of all the events, history, feelings and thoughts of humanity and of life since its origins. To drink a simple glass of water then would reach the holy dimension linking us to the beginings of life on our planet and through this with the Universe.


In LILY's work, WATER IS THE SCULPTURE. Whether because of impact, texture, the crossing of lines in space, changes of density, illumination, coloring, containment or movement, the creation of the sculpted form is modeled by the infinite variations of water, with minimal intervention by other objects.

Lily Wicnudel works as urbanist, architect and artist for the government of the city of Buenos Aires in the Historic Area of the City