Flower Shop Collective
Brooklyn, New York

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Flower Shop Collective (FSC) is an art studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. FSC is proud to present Bogota-born painter Cesar Kastro's latest series entitled Noicanicula, cleverly meaning hallucination backward in Spanish. These paintings are inspired by Pre-Columbian objects, accessed using the Metropolitan Museum's database. These objects, violently separated from the Indigenous communities that created them, are interpreted through a crimson palette with a gold leaf background, breathing new life and dignity into them. Kastro is reframing these objects' identities through the lens of theorist Arielle Azoulay's "potential history", envisioning what their cultural roles would be without the colonial violence that stripped them from their home. Noicanicula is blood memory communicated through the hallucination that is creativity.