Poeleen Alvarez
Opening
Wednesday, August 3, 2022 | 3 PM UTC+08
Mono8
306 Fox Square Building, 53 Connecticut St., Greenhills East, San Juan City, Philippines
Installed as a reading room, Poeleen Alvarez’s first solo exhibition, “Meanwhile the world goes on” opens on August 3 at 4PM.
Through a series of handmade zines, Alvarez presents images and paraphernalia: beloved passages, flora, letters, jottings, and photographs. Together, they record a life steadily passing or perhaps constitute a reply to the pressures and loneliness that dog contemporary life.
Poeleen Alvarez (b. 1998) is a visual artist who lives and works in Bulacan, Philippines. Her collages and intermedia works draw inspiration from the visual culture and rhetoric of popular media. With an inclination to art history, her work is influenced by theories on appropriation, visual communication, and Rod Paras-Perez’s concept of the Filipino Baroque – the aesthetic affinity for boisterous colors and gaudy ornamentation. Her practice is informed by her training in printmaking, ceramics, and the digital arts. Alvarez received her BFA in Painting (2018) and Art History (2020) from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
