Cornell University

Savannah Flores and Marissa Cote meet at the intersection of time and material. Their craft-based practices take on similar points of inquiry, examining familial and systemic wounding throughout personal and social history and mapping generational knowledge, change, and possibility. Both artists maintain a steadfast curiosity for how material-based practice and object-making offer a poetic foundation for their work. The artists entangle their work in a complex web of relations through binding, piecing, wrapping, knotting, stitching, weaving, enmeshing, and draping. Flores and Cote seek to understand where we have been through personal, familial, social, and relational lenses to understand where we are and where we can go from here.

Biographies
Savannah Flores (B.F.A. '25) is an artist whose practice involves layering handmade paper, silhouettes, and archival images to express the enduring impact of settler colonialism and assimilation on the individual and the collective. To disrupt these colonial structures, Savannah represents bodies in migration, speaking to and colliding with colorful abstract worlds encompassing a hereditary past/present space. Savannah's work highlights the rawness of disrupted motherly relationships as an effect of these structures. Her work is a homage to mothers and grandmothers who attempt to heal their wounds through their daughters' experiences, often mirroring the same pain they've experienced.

Marissa Cote (M.F.A. '26) is an interdisciplinary artist invested in understanding systems and technologies of power and how they shape and misshape and reshape our world and our love. She is a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Visual Arts at Cornell University.

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