{"id":629729,"date":"2026-10-13T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:18:10","slug":"sara-flores-paints-what-the-world-stands-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629729\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Flores Paints What the World Stands to Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/feature\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">\u201cEvery opportunity to show my work is a platform to raise attention on the struggle for self-determination and cultural resistance of the Shipibo people,\u201d the artist told Hyperallergic.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/eileen-gsell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/eileengsell-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Eileen G\u2019Sell\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hummingbird_Sara_Patterns-.jpeg\" alt=\"Sara Flores Paints What the World Stands to Lose\"\/><br \/>\n            Film still of Sara Flores in The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026) (all images courtesy Shipibo Conibo Center)<\/p>\n<p>A long canoe floats onscreen to the throbbing hum of insects; a frail woman expertly strips bark from a tree. She boils it slowly, a small tamarin monkey curled on her head like a crown. Dipping a blade into a bowl of tree juice, the woman free-hands a series of geometric shapes. Her nails are stained with age and ink, her grip remarkably steady.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by \u00c8lia Gasull Balada and Matteo Norzi, The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026) follows artist Sara Flores throughout her rapid ascendance to art world fame as the representing artist of the Peruvian pavilion at the current <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/venice-biennale\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venice Biennale<\/a>. The film will screen at the 50th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/mostra.org\/filmes\/o-beija-flor-pinta-cancoes-perfumadas?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo International Film Festival<\/a> starting on October 19, and will make its United States premiere as the opening night selection at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docnyc.net\/film\/the-hummingbird-paints-fragrant-songs\/?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DOC NYC<\/a> on Wednesday, November 11, streaming online as part of the festival from November 12\u201329. <\/p>\n<p>After an opening sequence set deep in the Amazon rainforest, we encounter Flores smiling at a flute of champagne on a first-class flight to New York. At her exhibition at the now-defunct Clearing gallery on the Bowery, she stands proud in a crimson blouse, admiring the admirers. In Central Park, she feeds the pigeons after watching a man extend acorns to the squirrels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hummingbird_Sara_Tree.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1081\"  \/>Film still of Sara Flores in The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026) <\/p>\n<p>    Keep reading with your email \u2014 it\u2019s free<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Create a free account to read more articles each month, and get the best of Hyperallergic in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#00AEEE\">Create free account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feature \u201cEvery opportunity to show my work is a platform to raise attention on the struggle for self-determination&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-629729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}