On the occasion of Spotlight: Sara Flores, The FLAG Art Foundation will host a discussion with artist Sara Flores and Director of CARA Manuela Moscoso.
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About:
Sara Flores (b. 1950, Tambomayo, Peru) is an artist living and working in Yarinacocha, Peru. A member of the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, she is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of kené, the intricate design system central to her culture’s cosmovision and artistic production. Flores’s recent solo exhibitions include Bakish Mai, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK (2025); Non Nete. A Dream for an Indigenous Nation, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru (2025); Sara Flores, White Cube, Paris, France (2023); Soi Biri, CLEARING, New York, NY (2023), among others. Flores has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Maison CLEARING, Bannwartweg 39, Basel, Switzerland (2025); Contemporary Amazon. Works from the Hochschild Correa Collection – Peru, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain (2025); Contemporary 1. Matter :: Alchemy :: Device :: Flow, MAC Lima, Peru (2024); Ayahuasca & Art of the Amazon, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (2024); Shamanic Visions. Ayahuasca Arts in Peruvian Amazonia, Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris, France (2023); signals…瞬息 (signals…folds and splits), Para Site, Hong Kong, China; A Mind Made of Silk, CLEARING, Brussels, Belgium (2023); Something Beautiful – Reframing la Colección, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (2023); This far and further, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (2023); Meridians, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida (2022); Rivers can exist within waters but not without shores, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, Lima, Peru (2022); and Maya maya bainkin. Avanzando dando vueltas. Arte y Futuro Shipibo, Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru, Lima, Peru (2022). Flores’s work can be found in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Tate, London; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Al Thani Collection, Paris, France; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; the Hochschild Correa Collection, Lima, Peru; the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, NY; the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru; the Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands; the New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Contemporary Art Collection, Brooklyn, NY; The Shipibo Conibo Center, New York, NY; and the UBS Art Collection, New York, NY. In 2024, Flores was selected for the ninth edition of the Dior Lady Art project, collaborating with the brand to reimagine the iconic Lady Dior bag. Flores’s work is currently included in Amazonia, Art at Americas Society, New York, NY; and in the Bienal das Amazônias, Belém, Brazil. Sara Flores has been selected to represent Peru for their national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennial of Art, set to open in May 2026.
Manuela Moscoso is a curator, editor, and cultural strategist recognized for building institutions that expand the role of art in public life. Over two decades, she has shaped cultural infrastructures across Latin America, Europe, and the United States, developing frameworks that sustain artistic and intellectual work from diverse perspectives. Her leadership spans both major institutions and independent initiatives. She currently serves as the inaugural Executive & Artistic Director of CARA (New York) and has curated landmark projects including the 2ª Bienal das Amazônias (2025, Brazil), the Liverpool Biennial (2021), and exhibitions at Museo Tamayo (Mexico City) and CAPACETE (Rio de Janeiro). She co-founded Zarigüeya Contemporáneo (Quito) and the editorial platform Rivet, dedicated to research-driven cultural discourse. Her practice embraces transdisciplinary processes where pedagogy, performance, publishing, and collective inquiry intersect. Committed to feminist and decolonial approaches, she creates conditions in which the knowledges, experiences, and voices of the Global Majority can shape the cultural field on their own terms—grounded in collaboration, care, and long-term institutional transformation.