Cristina Flores Pescorán

Cristina Flores Pescorán is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes photography, silversmithing, performance, video, installation, and mixed textile practices that draw inspiration from pre-Hispanic weaving and dyeing techniques. Her creative output reflects a dialogue between her own body, her healing processes, the textile tradition, family history, and feminism in the context of decolonization. Pescorán perceives textiles as an extension of her own body, and as such, she employs a range of rituals and healing processes aimed at achieving recovery, reconciliation, rebellion, and empowerment. Performance became an essential component of Pescorán's artistic practice in 2014 as a means of expressing emotions and generating a socio-political voice that reflects on the construction of her identity as a woman and connecting with diverse body types in alternative spaces that are constantly evolving. The project "Processes to heal the body," which she has been researching and developing since 2018, emerged as a response to bodily discomfort, prompting her to ponder the meaning of healing and how it could be achieved.