Puerto Rico — May 25, 2026 — Sabroso! is pleased to present Flor de Piedra, a new exhibition and first-time collaboration with the gallery by Zuleyka Alejandro Velázquez. The exhibition will be on view from June 11 through July 18, 2026, at Sabroso!’s flagship space located at 802 Calle Corchado in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

In Flor de Piedra, Zuleyka Alejandro Velázquez presents a body of sculptures and paintings that move between the geological, the corporeal, and the ancestral. The works seem to emerge from an in-between state: expanding surfaces, deforming bodies, organic structures that have not yet fully defined themselves. The works inhabit a language of abstraction in which forms never remain fixed. Something is constantly mutating: between stone and soil, erosion and growth, hardness and fragility. The surfaces hold cracks, openings, and accumulations that evoke both landscape and body. In these pieces, repeated patterns and stenciled interventions appear like traces or fragmented inscriptions, recalling mineral marks, cellular formations, or petroglyphs. Matter ceases to function merely as a support and instead becomes presence.

The exhibition continues an artistic investigation the artist has developed over recent years around matter, its displacements, and its sensory possibilities. This research has led her to engage with the history of ceramics from its earliest origins, understanding clay as one of the oldest material languages shared across cultures. Within this inquiry, Puerto Rico occupies a central place: from the ancestral practices of the archipelago’s original inhabitants to the contemporary ways artists, artisans, and communities continue to relate to the land and its materialities. Rather than existing as a fixed historical line, these connections appear as living fragments that continue to transform and transmit themselves through acts of making.

Clay occupies a central place within this search: a living, malleable material charged with memory and transformation. Working with materials tied to the land in Puerto Rico also means coming into contact with ancestral histories of creation, exchange, and permanence. Within this investigation there is also an attention to the history of ceramics as a practice historically linked to the labor of women: domestic, communal, and manual processes that for a long time were relegated to a secondary position within academic and artistic hierarchies. Against structures that privilege rigidity, productivity, and absolute definition, Flor de Piedra moves toward other ways of creating and producing knowledge: more intuitive, sensitive, affective, communal, and relational. Matter becomes here a space for listening and resistance, a site where the informal, the mutable, and the collective acquire value.

Without fully belonging to a single tradition, the research subtly enters into dialogue with artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Lucio Fontana, Ken Price, and Ana Mendieta, particularly through their approaches to the land, trace, surface, and material transformation. Rather than constructing a closed narrative, Flor de Piedra proposes a space for perception and inquiry. A place to move slowly toward textures, voids, and forms in motion. Matter seems to breathe across multiple temporalities at once: something ancestral and future, intimate and untamed.

Whatever happens, we’ll meet there.

Flor de Piedra runs from Junio 11 to July 18, 2026 at Sabroso! 802 Calle Corchado, Santurce, Puerto Rico.