Time passes through the dream
Sunk up to its neck.
Yesterday and tomorrow eat
Dark flowers of sorrow.
Federico García Lorca
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Flowers have long symbolized beauty and transience. Their fleeting splendor has inspired countless artistic and literary expressions, linking them to youth, love, and renewal. In full bloom, they exude an irresistible allure—vivid colors, seductive shapes, and delicate fragrances ensuring life’s continuity.
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Challenging the traditional image of the flower as a celebratory emblem of beauty and the life’s magnificence, Margarita Boulton presents in Mourning Flowers a perspective that lingers on their decline—the moment when freshness fades into fragility and splendor gives way to decay. In these wilted petals, unopened buds, and leaves consumed by time, there is no ornamentation, no idealization—only a meditation on withering as a metaphor for mourning. Aging, frustration, estrangement, and silence take shape in these trembling flowers, captured through intentional blurs, motion sweeps, and distortions that evoke an inner world of sorrow.
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Boulton does not merely document the physical transformation of flowers; she translates into images the unrepresentable loss of femininity as culturally constructed. Frustrated motherhood, identity eroded by time, the exhaustion of desire—all find expression in these flowers, which no longer embody the ideal of vitality yet refuse to disappear.
From a psychoanalytic lens, Julia Kristeva describes mourning as a process that disrupts language and identity, confronting us with the ineffable—what cannot be fully symbolized. In Mourning Flowers, Boulton not only records decay but elevates it into an act of aesthetic affirmation. For Kristeva, art is a space of sublimation—it turns the unspeakable into image, pain into language. In the materiality of the withered or the aborted, we find a poetics of mourning that seeks not restoration, but inscription. Fragility becomes presence; loss, though irreparable, finds a way to be seen, to be spoken.
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Margarita Boulton (Caracas, Venezuela, 1986) trained as an Associate in Graphic
Design at the Instituto de Diseño de Caracas between 2005 and 2009, and in
2012, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Miami
International University of Art and Design. Her photographic practice began at
Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografía in Caracas, where she studied between 2016
and 2019. In 2022, she presented her photographic work in the solo exhibition
“Ella, la flor”, held at La Casa 22 in El Hatillo, Caracas. She currently lives
and works in Miami.
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