The show brings together concurrent practices across spatial signifiers (e.g. the “national,” the “regional,” the “local,” the “foreign,” etc.) into negotiation and dialogue. It aims to ferry artistic testimonies beyond the confines of time zones and localizable spaces. It also aims to deconstruct ramifications that dichotomize or divorce the local from the national, the native from the foreign, and vice versa. It intends to articulate art as a conversant and dialogic testament; a kind of practice that transgresses the delimitation or localization of spaces; a kind of practice that mediates pretensions as a proper corrective to the poverty of language and cultural constructs. In other words, the show hopes to enliven humanity’s enduring conversation with itself – a conversation that could bind together the variegated dimensions of a human being.
Concurrents
A Collective Community Exhibition with Chuah Shu Ruei
856 G Gallery, Mandaue City, Philippines
Malaysian contemporary artist Chuah Shu Ruei holds a participative community art project that is an extension of her series of paper collages called ‘Dunia’ (The World), which dwells on themes of interconnection, dichotomies, perspectives, boundaries, transcendence, and change. The project intends to incorporate traditional heritage into contemporary art.
| Gallery |
Orange Gallery |
|---|---|
| Country |
Philippines |
| City |
Bacolod City |
Description
Related Art Forums
Looking for Action: Performance, Video and Direct Art in Cebu
by Paul Grant
In 1991, Alice Guillermo, the respected Manila-based art critic published a much-needed history of Cebuano art entitled Cebu: A Heritage of Art [1]. Guillermo eloquently expounded on works created in Cebu, from church ceilings to what she referred to as the then contemporary "crop" of artists. While the work is a laudatory, necessary and insightful effort, one might be struck by certain gaps, not in the history she recounts, nor in the group of artists whom she celebrates, but rather more generally in the very concept of art described: in large part what we encounter in this avowed heritage is painting. The resultant picture is of an artistic tradition touched by certain realist schools, folk art, tendencies in art brut, and a fair amount of portraiture and landscape.
