It’s clear that the art world will be different after COVID pandemic. But, what will change? For the last 14 years Feliciano develop a possible outcome for “what’s next”, that he calls the Floraissance. He has developed concrete ideas of this shift, writing books and seeding the idea. The artist becomes an art-gardener, the museum an art-vivarium, and the contemporary art sprouts as the Floraissance. 

Feliciano also works as an artist doing photography and sculpture, but here he is applying as an art-gardener. The main difference is that an artist decides alone when his or her work becomes art (like when the painting becomes ready), and an art-gardener cultivates a project that only will become alive with a collective decision. 

Feliciano is here to propose, with concrete alternatives, an art mentality shift. He is not here to show a finish work of art, a beautiful painting or a conceptual art piece, but to seed ideas that can take years to sprout collectively. 

The main goal of Feliciano’s art practice is to cultivate the “Floraissance” – an idea that art is not only about the contemporary, but it’s a long-term project to cultivate the “flowers of tomorrow”. If we reconnected with science and humanism in the Renaissance, we can reconnect with nature in the Floraissance! 

Specifically for this proposal, Feliciano would like to recommend his projects "Welcome to the Floraissance" where he spread wood signs around town seeding this idea and inviting others to join in.