Mimi Salibio
June 22 – July 3, 2021
Art Underground
814 Balagtas St., Barangay Addition Hills, 1550 Mandaluyong
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Seabed, as an exhibition, attempts to revisit the role of textile and weaving within the task of image-making. The titular work itself, Seabed, which is a sprawling surface of canvas trimmings and embroidered fabric, is an index to the ethos of tapestries done during earlier times–rich in symbolism and narratives–a sweeping communique, to say the least, to memorialize significant events. To bring these to their more contemporary form and from a more personal account, invite certain questions regarding the role of craft in modern art, and provides a much needed interlude against the dominance of painting. The weaving of thread into fabric, and onto the canvas, to create patterns, memories, ideas and other abstractions, is certainly what could be ascribed as a ‘stitch in time,’ bringing together both acts of weaving and imagination–of labour and gesture, of process and material, to create the perfect record.
About the artist
Mimi Salibio (b. 1991) is an alumnus of Far Eastern University with a degree in Fine Arts Ð Painting. She is currently taking up her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Philippines, Diliman. Salibio has had her 1st solo exhibition in 2015 and has been participating at group shows locally since 2009. As an interdisciplinary artist, she is continuously exploring and experimenting with different media.
