Estelle Flores is a Brazilian contemporary artist based in Curitiba, Paraná, with a background in Design, who has made game art since 2020, producing machinima and code-based works that use video games from conception to production.These works investigate performance and the unconscious in digital culture, often using her own gameplay inside The Sims as raw material.,
Since 2020, Flores has painted inside The Sims, producing more than 100 pieces. The practice became her first Web3 release, on Tezos via Hic et Nunc, and she has described it as a microcosm of how society values art.Around 2023 she also began coding generative work, learning partly through fx(hash) and partly through Hydra, a JavaScript video synthesizer by artist Olivia Jack.,Inner Landscapes and Entropy Blender (2022), released on fx(hash), grew from that self-taught coding practice, which she has said let her generate income from her own research into creative coding.
In 2024, her multichannel video installation Your Home was shown on the Schlosser Media Wall as part of “Easel Engine”, an exhibition curated by Regina Harsanyi at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.,That September, curator and artist Kika Nicolela interviewed Flores for objkt's debut 'objkt Meets' video, marking the release of Explaining-Showing-Doing, eight machinima pieces made within The Sims 4. The collection collages fragments of her research, including citations from Yunus Emre, Baudrillard, Freud and Schechner, into a reflection on how simulation games reduce reality, and the subjects within it, to fit the game.
With Érica Storer, a collaborator since they met in 2015 through the collective Brutas, Flores made Bom Dia, a piece on the blurred lines between work and personal life under a productivity-driven, meme-inflected digital folklore. The work was shown in Berlin during Art on Tezos and in Brazil as an interactive installation, a counterweight pulley system holding a camera-equipped screen, and exists on objkt.one as a long-form generative project that lets each collector generate a personalized output using facial recognition. A second work from the same process, PiskPag, appeared in the itinerant exhibition “MEME: O Br@sil da Memeificação” at CCBB Brasília.Her solo exhibition “Contém Ingredientes de Verdade” was held at MuMA in Curitiba, and her work has also been shown at the Fu:Bar Glitch Art Festival in Zagreb.
