In 2025, the Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Ascona presented Flowers of My Desire, Joana Vasconcelos’ first solo exhibition at a Swiss public institution. Conceived specifically for the museum’s spaces and curated by Mara Folini and Alberto Fiz, the exhibition took the form of a comprehensive retrospective, bringing together more than thirty works produced from the early 1990s to the present. Spanning both floors of the museum, the exhibition combined monumental sculptures, immersive installations, wall works, video, drawings and publications, offering a wide-ranging overview of the artist’s practice. Through the transformation of everyday objects using both artisanal and industrial processes, Vasconcelos explored recurring themes such as the body, femininity, collective memory, consumer culture and the relationship between private and public space. Presented in the context of the centenary celebrations of the Locarno Peace Conference (1925), Flowers of My Desire established a dialogue between history, art and contemporaneity, reaffirming Joana Vasconcelos’ position as one of the most influential voices in international contemporary art.