For the last twenty years, Floki Gauvry has been creating monoprints that combine elements of the more traditional forms of both painting and engraving. With a foundation of support inking, each monoprint is a unique production; it is born from a technical and expressive procedure that eschews duplication so that each work may assert its own presence, identity, and value.

Each of Gauvry’s many exhibitions is linked by the passage, the oscillation, between two primary experiential themes: the existential and the aesthetic. The crux of her work is the passage and the change, the journey and the impermanence.

Her works engender an environment of quiet, symbiotic reflection for those who observe them. At the same time, the uncertainty and unpredictability of the monoprints create an atmosphere of ephemeral exclusion. Gauvry’s works require slow, measured thought and often offer resistance. It is as though each piece conceals a visual secret passed from artist to creation.

It is only through contemplation that the observer discovers something distant and foreign, yet intimate, in Gauvry’s monoprints. In order to see her works, that is, for them to become truly visible before the sensitive experience of the gaze, not only must the observer get close to them, but must also question and reflect upon them. Without such cognitive effort, her works remain invisible.

The immediately inviting simplicity of her works does little to impede their profound nature, as surface appearance conveys only the initial layer of their true depth. Horacio Zabala.

BOOK ‘DESTELLOS’ (Sparkles)


On 2006, Gauvry’s independently published her book ‘DESTELLOS (Sparkles) - work on paper 1985 / 2005,’ Del Cielito Publishers


Available in major national bookstores and online at www.Tematika.com.

A book of great poetic density, ‘DESTELLOS’ (Sparkles) reviews two decades of Floki Gauvry’s experience as an artist, detailing each stage of her journey. With interwoven excerpts from the English physicist Stephen Hawking, Khalil Gibran, Lao Tse, and other poets and thinkers, Gauvry summarizes her twenty-year quest; the resulting work is a subtle, proprietary blend of quantum physics, western philosophy, exposition, and a free and personal use of colors. Some of her works invite us, as does a mandala, to dive in and lose track of time.