Estefania B Flores
Biography
Estefanía B. Flores employs sculptural forms that meld digital nostalgia, organic abstraction, and fantastical narratives. Her work evokes the proto-digital sensibilities of early video game worlds—minimal architectures, rudimentary graphics, uncanny atmospheres—which she transforms into tangible, three-dimensional objects. Her practice stages a reflective nostalgia for obsolete technologies—those embedded in our collective memory as the future’s promise—using materials such as steel, car paint, epoxy, pigments, and found toys. These artifacts transform elements of entertainment culture into physical relics, blurring the line between digital illusion and tactile presence. Flores openly experiments with form and surface, allowing a ‘magical’ quality to emerge—where unreality is embraced and realism is purposefully subverted. Her visual language provokes “distracted, uncertain, yet recognizable” responses, inviting viewers into spaces where imagination, digital memory, and material resonance overlap. ...