Focus Art Fair: Paris 2022

Flower Shop Collective (FSC) is a Brooklyn-based art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Determined to cultivate stories of diaspora and home across the globe, Flower Shop Collective is proud to present FSC artists Steph Butchko and Cesar Kastro in this year’s Focus Art Fair in Paris. Working through themes such as gendered power dynamics and Indígena Futurism, Steph Butchko and Cesar Kastro use idealized Greco-Roman sculpture and mythology to create new interpretations of archaic symbols. From the blending of Bacchus with the Muisca diety Nenkatakoa to the retelling of a Greek myth titled ‘Narcissa’, Kastro and Butchko reclaim antiquity without shying away from the western influence that took their agency away.

Location: Paris, France