KNOWLEDGE AND THE ORGANIC: NEBRASKA FLORES AT PONCE+ROBLES
Nebraska Flores transforms discarded books into organic installations inspired by natural forms of organization. Her intervention at Ponce+Robles proposes a rereading of language as a space for affective cohabitation between matter, body, and knowledge.
Ponce+Robles presents Una palabra, un nido, una cueva (A Word, a Nest, a Cave), an intervention by Nebraska Flores (Quito, Ecuador, 1999), shown as part of the LAB 20/30 program—an experimental initiative by the Madrid-based gallery aimed at giving visibility and support to emerging artistic practices.
Curated by Sara Coriat, the exhibition encourages a reconsideration of language in order to explore its possibilities for cohabitation. From a distinctly organic perspective, the artist develops installations that take over the gallery space. Using discarded, forgotten, or second-hand books, Flores grants them a second life that materializes in new forms. Through the recovery and manipulation of the material, their essence is transformed, establishing parallels with natural structures.
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Nebraska Flores: Una palabra, un nido, una cueva, en Ponce+Robles
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Nebraska Flores: Una palabra, un nido, una cueva, en Ponce+Robles
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Nebraska Flores: Una palabra, un nido, una cueva, en Ponce+Robles
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Nebraska Flores: Una palabra, un nido, una cueva, en Ponce+Robles
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Nebraska Flores: Una palabra, un nido, una cueva, en Ponce+Robles
The words contained in books—and the implicit, assumed knowledge they carry—are translated into living organisms. The resulting forms, reminiscent of honeycombs or mycelial structures, invite reflection on modes of interspecies cohabitation from a more affective point of view.
The intervention unfolds across the walls and spaces of the gallery’s lower rooms, adhering to this organic logic, while the public is invited into a perhaps more contemplative interaction with an ecosystem that permeates both the senses and conceptual thought. Ultimately, the viewer becomes part of this new environment, choosing how to relate to it on sensory and material levels.
Nebraska Flores. Una palabra, un nido, una cueva can be seen until March, 20th at Ponce+Robles, Alameda 5, Madrid (Spain).
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