Flor: Kiki - A Sky of Changing Lights
Everybody is pleased to present Kiki鈥擜 Sky of Changing Lights, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Flor.
A painting depicts a queer monarch butterfly named Kiki, taking a sip from an unattended Aperol spritz at a discotheque. The background lights shift colors, refracted on bodies moving. The spritz sits on a confetti glitter table alongside a copy of Disidentifications by Jos茅 Esteban Mu帽oz. A few seconds later, Kiki becomes a dancing queen.
Who is Kiki, you might ask? Kiki is a queer monarch butterfly that likes to go to the discotheque. Wandering & longing to belong, Kiki finds clues for kinship throughout the urban landscape. Following the scent of something familiar yet unknown鈥揳n Aperol Spritz鈥搒he stumbles onto a dancefloor where she finally finds the space for moves & gestures of her own... Kiki la dancing queen鈥� after a night out at the club Kiki finds comfort on a hammock spun by a friendly spider for her. The texture of these silky threads brings her memories of dreams when she embodied other forms.
In their paintings, Flor allows Kiki to flutter away from whatever preconceptions we might have about monarch butterflies. Flor recalls seeing images of monarchs in protest posters carried by Dreamers & on murals in Pilsen, Chicago, where they live. They wondered if the monarch ever got tired of carrying these narratives of multigenerational migration, of survival, change, & beauty. Flor gives Kiki space to find & embody her multiplicities, a place to rest from imposed societal roles & narratives. Flor opens a window for Kiki who didn't quite fit in with the rest of her monarch group鈥 queer butterfly who is somehow bad at migrating, struggling, & performing her 鈥渕onarch鈥� roles. Kiki is a dream space for queer narrative stories about our bodies, environments & relationships. About our need not only for survival & places to rest but also a space to allow ourselves to manifest endless joy, to conjure the world & relationships we need beyond survival. All done with a fantastical twist because we all need bedtime stories to dream up new possibilities鈥�
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Everybody is pleased to present Kiki鈥擜 Sky of Changing Lights, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Flor.
A painting depicts a queer monarch butterfly named Kiki, taking a sip from an unattended Aperol spritz at a discotheque. The background lights shift colors, refracted on bodies moving. The spritz sits on a confetti glitter table alongside a copy of Disidentifications by Jos茅 Esteban Mu帽oz. A few seconds later, Kiki becomes a dancing queen.
Who is Kiki, you might ask? Kiki is a queer monarch butterfly that likes to go to the discotheque. Wandering & longing to belong, Kiki finds clues for kinship throughout the urban landscape. Following the scent of something familiar yet unknown鈥揳n Aperol Spritz鈥搒he stumbles onto a dancefloor where she finally finds the space for moves & gestures of her own... Kiki la dancing queen鈥� after a night out at the club Kiki finds comfort on a hammock spun by a friendly spider for her. The texture of these silky threads brings her memories of dreams when she embodied other forms.
In their paintings, Flor allows Kiki to flutter away from whatever preconceptions we might have about monarch butterflies. Flor recalls seeing images of monarchs in protest posters carried by Dreamers & on murals in Pilsen, Chicago, where they live. They wondered if the monarch ever got tired of carrying these narratives of multigenerational migration, of survival, change, & beauty. Flor gives Kiki space to find & embody her multiplicities, a place to rest from imposed societal roles & narratives. Flor opens a window for Kiki who didn't quite fit in with the rest of her monarch group鈥 queer butterfly who is somehow bad at migrating, struggling, & performing her 鈥渕onarch鈥� roles. Kiki is a dream space for queer narrative stories about our bodies, environments & relationships. About our need not only for survival & places to rest but also a space to allow ourselves to manifest endless joy, to conjure the world & relationships we need beyond survival. All done with a fantastical twist because we all need bedtime stories to dream up new possibilities鈥�
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