Cristina Flores Pescorán: Ñiñi for Ñaña to Bloom

"A blood-red thread leads Cristina Flores Pescorán to her place." --Cecilia Vicuña Published with Fundación Casa Santa Ana. Reflecting on her own experience of illness, treatment and recovery, Peruvian artist Flores Pescorán (born 1986) puts a wide range of mediums in conversation with pre-Hispanic weaving and dyeing techniques, for which she uses medicinal plants that are part of her daily routine. Ñiñi for Ñaña to Bloom documents Pescorán's most recent exhibition, an intimate exploration of her relationship to the northern Peruvian sea, where she spent much of her childhood and where her first depigmentations appeared--marks that, after years of tests and misdiagnoses, were eventually revealed to be cancer. Her textile sculptures and delicate drawings, dyed with medicinal plants, evoke seeds, bark and ocean waves as well as the desert, sand and sunsets. Through the series, Pescorán points to the spiritually healing properties of the ocean, which figures as a connector between geographies, bodies and periods of time. The volume also features essays that discuss her past decade of artistic output.