For hundreds of years, flowers have been a wealthy supply of symbolism. Relationship again to the Ottomans, floriology, or the language of flowers, blossomed within the Victorian period when a bouquet functioned as a nonverbal code. The fragile sweetpea, for instance, might need been given as a thanks to a very beneficiant host, whereas buttercups would inform the recipient that the sender thought them infantile and immature.
Maria A. Guzmán Capron (previously) references the timeless expressions of flowers for Solo Pienso en Volver a Verte, which opens this week at Lyles & King. Translating to “I solely take into consideration seeing you once more,” the solo exhibition contains the artist’s signature textile portraits of opulently patterned materials in a layered patchwork. Gentle and plump with batting, the quilted characters are every distinctive, though Capron generally makes use of the identical secondhand materials on a number of items.
Encircled in hand-dyed materials, the figures on this physique of labor are sometimes doubled or conjoined, as within the embracing girls of “Otra Vez” or the two-faced topic of “Echa de Pedacitos.” Love, heat, and safety function prominently, as palms grasp for each other or emerge as a three-dimensional gesture. Capron envisions these layered, hybrid types as a strategy to visualize the assorted identities, experiences, and recollections inside all of us.
The artist additionally stitches and screenprints a big selection of flowers on faces, clothes, and all through the plush environment. Typically summary and infrequently indeterminate, the blooms share tales and messages of want that may be unspeakable or higher communicated by means of a logo of affection. Tending to like in all of its types is the thread that runs by means of every work, as Capron welcomes us right into a world wherein compassion and care are probably the most stunning items.
Solo Pienso en Volver a Verte runs by means of June 21 in New York. Discover extra from Capron on Instagram.
