Flores e Vasos | Gaspar Gasparian, Robert Mapplethorpe e Rochelle Costi com curadoria de Nessia Pope

Long associated with the still-life tradition, flowers and vases are reconfigured here through singular perspectives shaped by different contexts, techniques, and sensibilities. As a subject, they have recurred throughout art history as fertile ground for formal and symbolic experimentation, occupying a central place within still life. Beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries, European artists explored this theme as an exercise in observation and technical virtuosity. With the advent of photography in the 19th century, the motif was revisited and reinterpreted: beyond the aesthetic qualities of the arrangements themselves, questions of framing, light, staging, and seriality also came into play. In this context, flowers and vases moved beyond their role as pictorial motifs to become vehicles for reflection on time, form, sensuality, and everyday experience.