Description

Within ‘Flora Nativa en el Paisaje Invadido‘, Paula Flores proposes a work that, without establishing formal limits, moves between the sculptural, the pictorial and the setting to insert us into a kind of territorial abstraction: a space now Mediterranean zone, a site now scientific sample.

As if she were a naturalist explorer inserted in the industrial dynamics of the 21st century, the artist uses synthetic and recycled materials from the border area to draw an illustrative line on the native plants of Baja California.

Her work establishes a connection between the reality of the landscape and the imagination of the creator, favoring in her production process the use of formal parallels and subjective associations on the materials, thus inciting the viewer to create personal connections.

In response to the border phenomena that are beginning to change in such a hostile way in our geographical area, Paula Flores places before us the urgency of thinking beyond the political, economic or human implications that territorial invasion and delimitation entail.

She redirects our gaze towards the natural landscape on the periphery of our chaotic urban sprawl, a place also compromised by human decisions, conflicts and infrastructure; an environment violated and disappearing for reasons beyond nature’s control.

Text by Deslave/ Andrew Roberts and Mauricio Muñoz