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Sara Flores

SARA FLORES

Bakish Mai White Cube 9 July–7 September 2025 Bermondsey, London
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‘Bakish Mai’ presents the recent work of Peruvian artist and activist Sara Flores: a new film and a series of patterned, abstract paintings. Through these works, Flores offers conceptual representations of Shipibo-Konibo ancestral knowledge – mappings of the Amazonian cosmos and histories made visible on the painted surface.The exhibition’s title, which is also the name of the school co-founded by Flores in the Peruvian Amazon, translates loosely to ‘Land of Yesterday and Tomorrow’. The phrase speaks to a circular idea of time in which ancestral pasts shape the future, as well as the continued resonance of Indigenous epistemologies within a politics of land, life and futurity.’

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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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About the Gallery

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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London 144–152 Bermondsey Street
White Cube contemporary art gallery in Bermondsey London United Kingdom
White Cube
144–152 Bermondsey Street, London, United Kingdom
+44 207 930 5373
http://whitecube.com

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Tuesday - Saturday
10am – 6pm

Sunday
12pm – 6pm
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