Material ExercisesBlanca Varela (trans. Carlos Lara) Flesh wounds, flies, flowers, and freedom. Blanca Varelas Material Exercises is a declaration of divine oblivion vis vis a violent mysticism. Here, no soul ascends to commune with a vengeful deity: salvation is not achieved from bodily punishment but found in the poetic possibility that emerges from the corporeal tension between tactility and spirituality, night and day, the cogito and the empirical, where language