Paula Flores

Through the years in my work, I have explored my and our (as a whole) relationship with nature. As someone who was born and raised in an industrial city, the border city of Tijuana my ties with nature were controlled within the city landscape, the other ties were from unknown lands and times that I relived through my grandparents stories of when they were young and the countless adventures at my grandparents garden and ranch or other places in the area of Tecate where we would go for walks and hikes that allowed me to see other dimensions.
My relationship with nature always felt magical. I constantly envisioned these moments that my grandparents described so carefully when they were reliving their childhood memories. Their vocabulary was filled with references of nature and all the beings that inhabit within. Myself being from a city didn’t fully understand all of these poetic ways of nature that overflow into language, culture and behavior that allow oneself to find its place in the world. Now that years have passed since I have heard those stories. I can still see some of those images in my mind. Through my work I find myself exploring these connections that for many of us have not been part of our life because we grew up with d...

Masters degree art & science, University of Applied Art of Vienna.
Bachelors degrees in Plastic Arts, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California.

Parallel Vienna 2023 solo room curated by Marcello Farabegoli Flores latest solo show 2022-2023 Part of a lifetime curated by Marcello Farabegoli curator of the Wiener Aktionismus museum WAM, 2022 Solo show "Conexiones naturales entre espejismos y realidades" Centro Estatal de las Artes, Tijuana. 2021 Red Carpet Showroom, Schottentor, Vienna. "Trauma curated by Denise Parizek" Kunstraum Munchen in the frame of the gallery event VARIOUS OTHERS. "Perspectives of Transformation curated by Marcello Farabegoli" Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas. 2019 “Is this intimacy”, Krinzinger projekt, “Praise the laziness” 12-14 gallery, Vienna, ibiennale 2019 in Honolulu, “Biennale Sessions” Biennale di Venezia 2019, Consciousness reframed 2019 Porto, Portugal. Her work was part of the exhibition Being here with you/ Estando aqui contigo at MCASD Museum of Contemporary art of San Diego. Her most recent solo exhibitions are Litos Liquen at CECUT in Tijuana, Mexico. Semilla del paraíso at the Institute of Mexican Culture in Vienna, Austria, Flora nativa en el paisaje invadido at Deslave. She was part of salon ACME 2018 and LASER talks at UC Santa Barbara. She has been part of residencies in Austria and the U.S.A such as Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vien...