Cristina Flores Pescorán

Cristina Flores Pescorán (b. 1986 in Lima, Peru; lives and works between Lima, Utrecht, and Paris) works across textiles, video, performance, and installation to explore the body as a site where illness, healing, memory, and ancestral knowledge converge. Drawing from her own experience with cancer, recovery, and medical intervention, she approaches artistic practice as a means of confronting and reimagining what healing might signify beyond the limits of clinical frameworks. Referencing traditional medicinal practices in Peru, ritual structures, and inherited forms of cultural knowledge, Flores Pescorán creates works that move between vulnerability and protection, intimate experience and collective memory.

 

Using Peruvian cotton, copper thread, handmade gauzes, and dyes derived from purple corn and medicinal plants, Flores Pescorán develops textile forms that evoke skin, organs, seeds, bark, and protective veils. Her work draws on pre-Inca Chancay gauze techniques, Mochica divination practices, and the symbolic language of ritual objects, while interrogating contemporary understandings of illness, cure, nourishment, pleasure, death, and magic. Through these material and conceptual gestures, her practice becomes a space for reclaiming agency over the body and imagining processes of healing grounded in touch, remembrance, and transformation.

 

Flores Pescorán completed the Post-Academy program at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and studied Painting at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her work has been presented in major international exhibitions including the 24th Biennale of Sydney, the 3rd Toronto Biennial of Art, the Lahore Biennale, the 12th SITE SANTA FE International, and the 15th Shanghai Biennale. Her work is held in international collections including FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentes; Fundación Los Carbonell, Panama City; ICPNA, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima; ISLAA, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, New York; KADIST, Paris; MUNA, Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle; and The Roux Collection, Panama City.