Orchi

Lemonade, the album by the singer Beyonce Knowles, released in 2016 and her ‘Formation Tour’, were a revelation for Jorge de Luis. The album title Lemonade refers to Beyonce's husband's grandmother's speech on her 90th birthday: I was served lemons, but I made lemonade. With this mantra, Beyonce released what for De Luis is her best album, created out of the venom and bitterness of her husband's infidelities. In chronological order, the artist strips naked and recounts the ordeal she suffered, from the moment the suspicions of infidelity began until the eventual reconciliation, in which the artist goes through different states captured in the form of songs: sadness, humiliation, spite, anger and, finally, forgiveness.

This work is a reinterpretation of Beyonce's Formation Tour album cover. Inspired in turn by the work of Cindy Sherman, it personifies the singer and gives special prominence to the orchid, whose etymology comes from the Greek orchi (testicle) and refers to plants whose roots are reminiscent of human testicles. The appearance of the orchid is also the starting point of the series of Orchi paintings, in which this flower has a special prominence and sexual symbolism.