Blanca Espasa & Jennifer Laflamme: Artists in residence

Jennifer Mifi Laflamme’s textile paintings, made from natural fibres, reused fabrics and plants pigments through Japanese dyeing processes, frame matter in a state of transformation. Drawing from moments of interaction between the emotional, the spiritual and the natural, portals into new worlds of blended colour and shape are formed. Continuously evolving in the space, movement and changes in light shift our perception of the work.

Jennifer Laflamme is an artist specializing in textiles, natural dyeing, and painting. She has studied FineArts in Paris, Fashion Design in Toronto, and natural dyeing while living in Japan. Holding a BFA in Fashion Design from TMU, Laflamme draws on her Japanese-Korean heritage to explore traditional dyeing and pigment painting techniques. Her practice involves creating intricate painted textiles and sculptures that invite viewers into dreamlike worlds, rich in texture and detail, while examining the intersections of fabric, memory, and form. Laflamme has exhibited her work in Mexico City, New York and Japan and has participated in residencies in Japan and Mexico.

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Espasa’s sculptures, created through industrial casting processes, play with the material, the tactile. A feather, a shell, a flower - fragile remnants of living things are recreated in heavy bronze, adapted to be heavy and strong, while retaining the delicate gestures of their creation. The mobile hung from above synthesises Espasa’s intricate game of weights and matter, perfectly balancing each material. In dialogue, both practices reveal a common ground: the space between an object and its observer, where meaning is neither fixed nor given, but continuously

made.

Blanca Espasa is a sculptor whose practice focuses on metal casting, ceramics,and jewellery. Her work takes the form of sculptural and installation based environments that emerge from an interest in materializing a personal imaginary,

with a particular focus on the gestures and structures traced by natural processes, synthesized into biomorphic forms. Working through a process driven and material led methodology, Espasa explores the relationship between the body, intuition, and making.

Rooted in manual practices, her work incorporates techniques such as metal repoussé, laser cutting, and modelling with stoneware and bioplastics, allowing the traces of the process to remain visible. Through these material investigations, she examines the expressive potential of form, process, and transformation. Espasa lives and works in Mexico City. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, where she developed an interdisciplinary approach to material experimentation and sculptural practice.