Florencia Rodríguez Giles establishes communicating vessels between drawing and artistic and therapeutic practices. Her production investigates the expansion of the imagination and the mutation of life forms. In her practices and performances, she proposes moving through states prior to individuation, between the conscious and the unconscious, wakefulness and sleep, where the body and psyche become plastic.
The artist works with groups of people whom she invites to alter their perceptual, affective and expressive organization through a series of exercises and instructions that can last hours or months. Each of these experiences founds a small community of more or less transitory coexistence. During these explorations, the face of the participants—the most recognizable and identifying part of the body of every subject—is hidden behind the masks, enabling other types of perceptions and sensations that favor ignorance of oneself. In addition, suits, prostheses and soft or viscous materials are often used. The spaces can be intervened with paintings, sculptures or videos by the artist, as well as music or sound designs.
Some of the proposals that Rodríguez Giles develops invite a nap or collective delirium. In them she vindicates the experience of dreaming as the production of new narratives and scenarios of possible worlds. The artist generates exploration proposals for the public and dilutes the boundaries between spectator and participant. In her drawings and her processes of various natures, the artist probes physical and psychological states and thus displays a profuse posthuman, ritualistic, fantastic or orgiastic imaginary.