Jerry Florez

Jerry Florez is a Colombian-born, London-based architect and artist working across photography, drawing, sculpture and installation. His practice is shaped by a sustained curiosity about how we find meaning in the everyday forms and spaces around us — their atmosphere, their emotional charge, the way familiar environments carry traces of intimacy, melancholy or anticipation. His process deliberately privileges the intuitive and the imperfect: whether through automatic drawing, analogue photography or work made entirely from imagination, the aim is to resist the contemporary pull toward objectivity, efficiency and the measurable. "I try to create objects and atmospheres that speak to our irrational parts."

The Latibule departs from a simple observation: that a latibule — a space of refuge, withdrawal, private retreat — is not a luxury but a human necessity, and that the contemporary city rarely makes room for one. Florez takes 1 Poultry as a point of departure: a building that generates pockets of genuine strangeness inside a city otherwise engineered for throughput. He is interested in what is already there but rarely seen. The work asks whether it is possible — without expensive materials or extraordinary interventions — to create a space the body recognises as refuge, simply by attending to what our bodies respond to.

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