From Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Museum Het Schip will present the space-filling installation Sanar gozando. Saborear la tierra cálida que toca mi piel by artist Cristina Flores Pescorán.
Sanar gozando. Saborear la tierra cálida que toca mi piel (Healing through joy. Savor the warm earth that touches my skin) is a textile artwork inspired by the weaving techniques of the Chancay culture (a civilization that flourished between 1200–1470 on the central coast of Peru) and other ancestral weaving traditions. By combining the two, Flores Pescorán creates magical textile sculptures that express what healing means to her.
When Flores Pescorán first noticed symptoms of skin depigmentation, later diagnosed as skin cancer, she began creating a series of textile works. She drew inspiration from personal healing rituals with medicinal plants and from elements she believes generate energy and can heal the wounds in her body, her native land, and her family history.
For Flores Pescorán, this textile work is a self-portrait of her expanding body, which renews itself and provides protection. A bodily-circular system that enters into dialogue with the magical, the cyclical, and her ancestors from the northern coast of Peru.
The installation measures eight by five meters and will be on view during the first five months of the exhibition Unseen Talent. Women of the Amsterdam School at Museum Het Schip.
Works by Flores Pescorán have previously been shown at Museum De Fundatie, the Toronto Biennial of Art, and the Biennale of Sydney.
