Second Saturday Opening Reception: June 14th from 6-10 pm at Antenna (3718 St. Claude)
Intertwined by Flora Cabili @_flora_cabili is an immersive, mixed media exhibition that reflects on space, carving, permanence, and expansion. The paintings, collages, sculptures, videoed movement story, and soundscape are entangled in metaphysical environments that are both confined and liberated. In the meandering journey of patterns, where do things end and begin? This pattern vocabulary is rooted in past work contemplating the nature and composition of material, specifically non-disposable petroleum byproduct materials like Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam. EPS’s foam air-filled balls compacted together emulate our most basic human parts — cells, DNA strands, organs — and nature. Intertwined invites us to consider how we experience these patterns, at times entangled, to find the release in the spaces in between. The soundscape is a collaboration between Jeremy Phipps @jeremyphipps_ , Sophia Scarano @ph1losophia , and Flora Cabili @_flora_cabili.
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Flora is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist and Antenna Collective member who has completed residencies at Aquarium Gallery and DEPART-MENT in New Orleans, Obracadobra in Oaxaca city, RUBBERBAND in Montreal, Mime training at École Internationale de Mime Corporel Dramatique and will attend Studio Works in Eastport, Maine in September 2025. She has exhibited in New Orleans at Aquarium Gallery, Antenna Gallery, The Front Gallery, Luna Fete, and the Contemporary Arts Center. This is Flora’s first solo show at Antenna Gallery. Flora was born in Lyon, France, raised in France/US, and has lived in New Orleans for ten years where she works as artist, educator, and facilitator.
