This abstract artwork depicts a close-up view of a pair of soft, delicate lips rendered in various shades of pink and red. The composition fills the frame, emphasizing the sensual and intimate nature of the subject. The artist has employed a distinctive watercolor technique, allowing the paint to bleed and blend organically, creating a dreamlike and evocative quality. The piece invites the viewer to consider the emotive power of the human form and the artist's exploration of themes of desire, intimacy, and the ephemeral nature of physical beauty. ...
Annie Flores focuses on the intimate relationships between transparency and opacity, the aqueous and the crystalline. Her practice engages with themes of desire, memory, and the gaze, often employing materials like paper and pigment to craft works that are both tactile and ephemeral. These pieces evoke the presence of the body and the traces it leaves behind, engaging with concepts of absence and presence, and the boundaries between the self and the other. Flores’s art is characterized by its exploration of porosity—a concept that dissolves rigid boundaries and allows for the infiltration and retention of other ideas and sensations. This approach reflects her interest in the fluidity of identity and the complexities of human experience. Her works often present bodies as landscapes, where the erotic, the landscape, and melancholy intersect, creating a space where memory and desire are in constant movement. Through her practice, Flores invites viewers to contemplate the traces of what is absent and the marks left by fleeting moments, challenging perceptions and encouraging a deeper engagement with the materiality of the body and its representations. ...
