Flower of a Day
Sara Bonache | Flora Castiglia | Ariadna Chez | Olga Krykun
Andrés Lozano | Sonsoles Masiá | Francesc Rosselló | Maria Yelletisch
Summer arrives with its promise of fullness. It is the season of fruit, of the sun that ripens and matures what spring only began to suggest. It is a time of exuberance, when flowers unfold their fleeting splendor. Summer embodies the paradox of fertility: the moment of greatest bloom marks the beginning of decline.
Flowers are a promise of life, symbolizing birth and growth. Tied to sensuality and the reproduction of life, flowers speak of abundance. And it is in that beauty that the great paradox of the ephemeral lies. To bloom is also to begin to wither.
In its temporal dimension, the flower represents the now, the present moment within a broader cycle, the carpe diem. A memento mori that reminds us of life’s transience and the inexorable passage of time.
This exhibition brings together a group of artists who explore the floral not only as an aesthetic motif, but also as a metaphor for the life cycle. A reflection on desire, on what is fleeting, and on the inevitability of change. Summer is an invitation to celebrate the present. Like nature, art is inscribed in this cycle that is constantly rewritten: each work opens to its own time, but its meaning shifts and transforms with every gaze.
SARA BONACHE
Sara Bonache (b. 1991) lives and works in Barcelona, she completed her BA in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona in 2014.
She has recently exhibited her works at Bombon Projects, Barcelona, in a solo project as a part of the Art Nou Festival 2022. A selection of group shows include: Narratives in Blossoming Vigor, SENS Gallery, Hong Kong; Life in Colour, The Room, London 2022; Needful things, Rodzlo Gallery, Berlin 2022; Amsterdam 2022; Preludios de mi lira, CAC La Sala, Vilanova i la Geltrú 2022; The best design of the year, Design Museum, Barcelona 2021; III International Nasevo Prize, Senda Gallery, Barcelona 2021; Hotel x Hotel Kippenberger Tribute, Carmen Thyssen Museum, Malaga 2017 and University Selection 2014, Tsukuba University, Japan 2015, among others.
FLORA CASTIGLIA
Flora Castiglia is an Argentinian artist born in Buenos Aires. From an early age, she was surrounded by artistic practices, observing her mother — also an artist — working in their home studio. This intimate exposure shaped her deep connection to discipline, creativity, and the domestic space as a site of production.
Her early works were closely tied to the world of music: designs for musicians and interpretations of album covers. That influence still resonates in her painting today, where composition, rhythm, and visual harmony evoke a quiet, melodic language. Her work is marked by a carefully curated palette of deep, muted tones and a visual structure that balances spontaneity with control.
Castiglia’s painting explores the relationship between inside and outside, both spatially and emotionally. Through shapes, patterns, and colors, she rearranges familiar objects and fragments of the environment, blurring the boundaries between the domestic and the natural. Potted plants, mountains, textiles, and windows coexist organically within abstract scenes, where everything merges on the same plane.
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ARIADNA CHEZ
Ariadna Chez, born in Zamora in 1992, lives and works in Madrid. A hunter-gatherer of images, words, and materials, her practice straddles writing, sculpture, and painting without hierarchies or imposed categories.
She studied art at the University of the Basque Country and has since developed a material and poetic imaginary that combines resins, metals, clay, text, and moving images. She has participated in group exhibitions at venues such as IED Madrid, Milan Design Week, Factory of Dreams, and the Montehermoso Cultural Center, and regularly publishes in the satirical journal The Posttraumatic. Her first novel, La cómplice, will be published by Blackie Books.
OLGA KRIKUN
Olga Krykun (b. 1994 in Odessa, UA, lives and works in Prague, CZ) received her Master's Degree from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Studio
of Painting) in 2021.
Krykun uses a diverse array of media within her practice, including video, objects and painting, which she subsequently assembles to create complex installations. By combining elements of fictional narratives with references to cultural and socially relevant symbols, she invents a self-contradicting mythology of our day-and-age.
Krykun's work is heavily informed by her experiences growing up in her family's souvenir shop during a swiftly globalizing 1990s Ukraine. Her practice, which is strongly rooted in intuition and emotion, serves as a kind of poetry for the times we live in.
ANDRÉS LOZANO
Andrés Lozano (b. 1992, Madrid) is an artist living and working in Madrid.
During and after his undergraduate studies he focused on illustration, moving to London in 2015 to get his MA in Visual Arts from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) where he lived and worked until 2021. In 2018 his practice started focusing more on large scale personal paintings.
His work explores the the link between art, making and improvisation. Using semi biographical, narrative themes around domesticity and nature as a way to focus on the accident ridden, sometimes automatic and random process of painting.
Bouncing from the macro, looking at the painting as a whole, where the figuration is always contingent to the image working as a combination of shapes and colors; to the micro, layering textures and layers of material, experimenting with the tactile nature of paint on canvas; and hoping to strike a balance between the both.
ALEXIS JANG
Sonsoles Masiá is an artist born in Madrid in 1991. She holds degrees in Architecture and Fine Arts, with a particular interest in archaeology, astronomy, and traditional observatories. Her practice revolves around seeking out optimal moments and places for observation and creation, exploring the connection between nature, ritual, and the cosmos. Her research, notes, and painting-performances often take place in symbolically charged locations such as ancestral sanctuaries or during astronomical events like solstices, equinoxes, or lunar phases.
Over time, her work has organically centered around ceramics—a material deeply rooted in the earth and closely linked to the natural concepts that underpin her practice. Sonsoles investigates the materiality of the sacred and the symbolism of ancient female deities. Her work reflects on the origins of religious and folk rituals, proposing a renewed connection between these ancestral traditions and contemporary femininity.
FRANCESC ROSELLÓ
Francesc Rosselló holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. In his works, created in oil and acrylic, the artist stages his own distinctive universe, where those closest to him—along with animals, food, and cigarettes—are depicted through a bold and personal line.
Humor plays a central narrative role in his compositions, which are built around his characteristic palette of bright, saturated colors harmoniously combined. His paintings are inspired by personal experiences that he fragments and recounts from different temporalities and points of view.
As a mechanism for altering his own reality, Rosselló imagines potential scenarios through the staging of an alter ego who could very well be himself—and in part, is. Through repetition and the creation of multiple versions of fictional realities, Rosselló lays the foundations for a parallel world that exists solely in his works but which, the artist maintains, also exists.
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MARIA YELLETISCH
Maria Yelletisch’s masterpieces are a profound exploration of reverberation as a gateway to transcendence, flawlessly weaving elements of nature, light, memory, and emotion into her works. Through her deeply personal lens, Yelletisch delves into the meditative power of recurrence, drawing correspondences between the rhythm of nature and the contemplative state it suggests.
In her practice, Maria Yelletisch immerses herself in the boundless reprises found in the natural world, where each iteration maintains its individuality yet contributes to the collective harmony. This thematic thread extends into her urban landscapes, where memories intertwine with sensory experiences, forming what she exquisitely terms as ‘safe places,’ havens of connection and solace.
As Deleuze put it, when we concentrate on repetition to the point of obsession, we find exciting ‘small differences.’ Yelletisch explores this motto challenging the traditional notion of echo as mere imitation, advocating instead for a deeper understanding of how duplication can serve as a driver of innovation, experiencing and witnessing.
