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Sara Flores

SARA FLORES

Introductions | Sara Flores White Cube 26 November 2021–18 January 2022 Online Only
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One of the foremost contemporary artists emerging from the Amazonian basin, Sara Flores (b. 1950) lives and works in Peru, and is part of the Shipibo-Conibo People, an Indigenous group spread out alongside the Ucayali River. Flores’s intricate, geometric paintings on textile rework and expand the traditional form of Kené, a Shipibo term that can mean ‘design’ and whose etymology probably links with the verb kéenti, which means to love or to care for.

Flores’s Kené designs are hypnotic, abstract patterns rendering an overall image with a complex, vibrational power. Created using knowledge passed down matriarchally from generation to generation, it is part of a deeply entwined belief system that does not aim to represent but rather, to fix the fluidity of forms and images that inhabit the world of the spirit. Shipibo researcher and author Laureano Rios Cairuna has written: ’Kené designs are an expression of Shipibo creativity and reveal the symbolic form in which shamanic practices serve as the point of contact between the material world and the invisible forces of nature.’

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The complex and intricately geometric works of Peruvian artist Sara Flores express the practice of Kené – an ancient medium that is central to the artistic expression of the Shipibo-Conibo nation, an Indigenous people residing along the Ucayali River. Flores’s artistic praxis is rooted in the traditions of her ancestral and cultural heritage and informed by the interconnectivity of the Amazonian ecosystem. Through the matrilineal and intergenerational practice of Kené, Flores inherits both the technical knowledge and philosophical principles affiliated with the medium. She applies prepared natural dyes sourced from her immediate environment to create labyrinthine configurations that map neural, psychological, elemental and ecological networks.

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SARA FLORES Akinananti White Cube 25 June–14 August 2026 New York
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An international art powerhouse, White Cube was established in 1993 in London by art dealer Jay Jopling. In its space on Duke Street, it served as the early exhibition venue for many now internationally acclaimed British artists, including Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George, Rachel Kneebone and Antony Gormley, who still show with the gallery today.

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White Cube contemporary art gallery in Masons Yard London United Kingdom
White Cube
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