Flor Flores: mirror moment
Kiki – memorias de sparkles y besos, se entrelazan, creando nuevas emociones, sentimientos, a feeling… Kiki – memories of sparkled sprinkled kisses…
Acrylic gouache on muslin
50 x 32 inches
2023
Solo Exhibition of Chicago-Based Artist
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.
Flor Flores Artist Walk-Through: Thursday, November 6, 6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.
Exhibition open from October 16 to November 22
Exhibition Summary:
“Kiki is a queer monarch butterfly, shaped by every touch. She brushes past petals and gathers color, shape, memory. These paintings follow her logic: touch is transformation. Over time, Kiki led Flor back to flowers, then to the body. A mirror moment—budding—body euphoria. Skin echoes petal, a flor de piel. It doesn’t explain—it reflects. Her gestures become a way of seeing, of feeling. Not a fixed self. Not arrival. Just bloom.”
-Flor Flores
Flor Flores: mirror moment is an exhibition of new and recent works by transdisciplinary artist and poet Flor Flores. The artist’s process of creating these paintings, drawings, sculptures, poems, and textile-based installations centers on a caring and poetic channeling of Kiki, a butterfly. The artist has recently lifted divisions previously existing between the multiple artforms, noting this was possible after “Kiki showed me the way”. Folding, holding, flapping, flitting, touching, and shifting are actions Flor has learned from the butterfly, creating a new playground for experimentation and transformation with their own shifting body and identities.
For years Flor has been channeling Kiki, a queer monarch butterfly, painting her memories of falling in love with flowers - becoming them through touch, each changing the other.
In a new series, Bodyworks, Flor uses their own body, pressing and smearing skin and lips into surfaces, lips mirror petals, the body itself shifting. Borrowing gestures from Kiki - touch, fold, press - these works open a playground for transformation. In between them lies the mirror moment, a space of queer joy where bodies change, touch, and reflect one another.
RSVP for a walk-through of the exhibition with artist Flor Flores on November 6 at Ralph Arnold Gallery.
Solo Exhibition of Chicago-Based Artist
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.
Flor Flores Artist Walk-Through: Thursday, November 6, 6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.
Exhibition open from October 16 to November 22
Exhibition Summary:
“Kiki is a queer monarch butterfly, shaped by every touch. She brushes past petals and gathers color, shape, memory. These paintings follow her logic: touch is transformation. Over time, Kiki led Flor back to flowers, then to the body. A mirror moment—budding—body euphoria. Skin echoes petal, a flor de piel. It doesn’t explain—it reflects. Her gestures become a way of seeing, of feeling. Not a fixed self. Not arrival. Just bloom.”
-Flor Flores
Flor Flores: mirror moment is an exhibition of new and recent works by transdisciplinary artist and poet Flor Flores. The artist’s process of creating these paintings, drawings, sculptures, poems, and textile-based installations centers on a caring and poetic channeling of Kiki, a butterfly. The artist has recently lifted divisions previously existing between the multiple artforms, noting this was possible after “Kiki showed me the way”. Folding, holding, flapping, flitting, touching, and shifting are actions Flor has learned from the butterfly, creating a new playground for experimentation and transformation with their own shifting body and identities.
For years Flor has been channeling Kiki, a queer monarch butterfly, painting her memories of falling in love with flowers - becoming them through touch, each changing the other.
In a new series, Bodyworks, Flor uses their own body, pressing and smearing skin and lips into surfaces, lips mirror petals, the body itself shifting. Borrowing gestures from Kiki - touch, fold, press - these works open a playground for transformation. In between them lies the mirror moment, a space of queer joy where bodies change, touch, and reflect one another.
RSVP for a walk-through of the exhibition with artist Flor Flores on November 6 at Ralph Arnold Gallery.