On Cebuano Art and Culture

c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia Ivy Marie Apa – Nice Buenaventura – Alfred Marasigan – Nomar Miano – Gigi Ocampo – Soika Vomiter

Proximity is a group exhibition of works by contemporary Filipino artists from Manila and Cebu. The exhibition considers our relationship to place and landscape within the framework of what geographers have termed the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller and Urry 2006) – an increasingly mobile world of migration, social media, and accessible transport. Furthermore, rather than places acting as settings or surfaces upon which things and people move, the idea of approaching place as an ongoing process, as a verb – ‘placing’, ‘spacing’, ‘landscaping’ (Cresswell 2003), is proposed when grouping together works by artists from one country and presenting in another.

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.