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Edwin Arzeta: flower shop

June 8th - June 31st, 2026

Image Credit: Edwin Arzeta, Regardless of Time (2022) plastic flowers, Dior Homme glass bottle, PVA

beauty salon presents Edwin Arzeta: flower shop, an installation of drawings, paintings, and sculptures which draw upon the open-ended symbol of the flower and its deeply personal meanings to the artist. Using conventional materials, traditional bookbinding and paper folding techniques, artificial flowers, and various found objects, Arzeta has created works which are containers for memory, which engage with the flower as a marker of joy, achievement, grief, affection. Staged in a vacated flower shop in West Hollywood, the show is an exploration of the gendered charge of such spaces, an act of intervention which looks adoringly towards the feminine. In the artist’s words:

'While flowers are a symbol that belongs to the world history of sensorial language, for each of us they hold a range of meanings, from instant and shallow to deeply personal and tragic, even when reduced to the aerosols of a perfume mist. Whether from the floral section of the grocery store, the florist day-laborer, from our gardens, or from a webstore, the flower shop is the keeper of the flowers that we transact emotionally or cursorily – transactions to mark the passage of time.’