Sandra Flores Velazquez. Walking Urban Imaginary. Embroidery over textile, 22×25 cm, 2017

Sandra Flores Velazquez speaks on the theme Mind the Gap:

The gap is an space of precaution, the society advertance to take care about just because is something unknown, and we have precaution for this stretch spaces as the hole where Alice scape to the Wonderland. As an artist like Alice, is easy to see that a gap is a land of possibilities, an space to explore in undefine information, under sensations, inside of unknown experiences, across of intuition and perception to play in the land of our mind.

Each one of us have a gap inside of us, it inhabit in our mind where information is abstraction of algorithms to develop a land of possibilities, where imagination (the capability to create something in mind), memories (previous mind information) and imaginaries (a construction of ideas about something since collective magma or personal vivences) play as a frame to see through different perspectives.

As a personal consideration, the gap is inside of us in our minds, is an empty space to keep a concept of deeply intangible information, like imaginaries, fantastic imagination and memories. In my artistic practice there are special interest about tangible or intangible morphologies of inhabit space, for this my work have a close relation with urban imaginaries and it ways of representation, creation of ideal but unexist places and embroidery representation of memories and thoughts.

Sandra Flores Velazquez

Mexico-based artist Sandra Flores Velazquez explores spatial relationships in a variety of mixed-media. She often uses embroidery to explore what she calls “intuitive space,” making visible representations of our subconscious conflations of memory and place. She writes, “Intuitive space may be compared with an immaterial and parametric membrane. It is formed by abstract, intangible, sensitive and perceptive information about inhabited space and the architecture and distinctive elements of cities.”