Cristina Flores Pescorán

2024 Program & Exhibition Artist

Cristina Flores Pescorán (1986; ella/her/she) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Perú. Her work is a dialogue between her body, healing processes, medical experiences, family memories, and feminism. Reflecting on her own experience of sickness, treatment, and recovery, Flores Pescorán employs a wide range of mediums in conversation with pre-Hispanic weaving, and dyeing techniques using medicinal plants that are part of her daily diet. She incorporates hand-made gauzes inspired by the Chancay culture (a pre-Inca civilization developed between 1200AD and 1470AD), whose reticulated veils are believed to have had magical powers used for healing and protection. Through her practice, Flores Pescorán reflects and challenges what we understand as illness, death, cure, nutrition, pleasure and magic in our contemporary society.

Exhibit #

Acariciar el corazón del hueso (Caressing the heart of the bone)

Acariciar el corazón del hueso (Caressing the heart of the bone) (2023-2024) is a newly commissioned sculptural loom-altar that combines wooden pieces, fabrics, and needles. The project is a response to a dream in which Cristina envisioned herself having a tactile conversation with her bone marrow. The dream was inspired by a time when the […]

Donors & Supporters

Program

Preview: Touching the Whisper has the Sweetest Color

Touching the Whisper has the Sweetest Color is a performative activation of Cristina Flores Pescorán’s textile installation Acariciar el corazón del hueso [Caressing the Heart of the Bone], commissioned and produced for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. During the activation, the artist will rhythmically move threads of her installation in response to stories, poems, […]

Donors & Supporters

Consulado General del Perú en Toronto
Women Leading Initiative

Program

Touching the Whisper has the Sweetest Color

Touching the Whisper has the Sweetest Color is a performative activation of Cristina Flores Pescorán’s textile installation Acariciar el corazón del hueso [Caressing the Heart of the Bone], commissioned and produced for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. During the activation, the artist will rhythmically move threads of her installation in response to stories, poems, […]

Donors & Supporters

Consulado General del Perú en Toronto
Women Leading Initiative
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