From Other Worlds

Opens Saturday, May 9 For the first time in its history, Peru is represented at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia by an Indigenous artist.⁠ Sara Flores: From Other Worlds was developed in dialogue with curators Issela Ccoyllo and Matteo Norzi, and brings together new large-scale paintings on wild-cotton canvas, ethereal mosquito-net shaped sculptures, and Sara’s debut film Non Nete (A Flag for the Shipibo Nation) (2025). 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. Commissioner: Armando Andrade de Lucio Curators: Issela Ccoyllo, Matteo Norzi