Artist Talk
Saturday, February 29, 2020 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Galleria Duemila
210 Loring St., Pasay City
Josephine Turalba in Dialogue with Gina Olivares-Jocson and Rica Estrada
Consisting of an artist talk, dialogue and open forum, Josephine Turalba discusses her artistic process and conceptual framework for the research and second solo exhibition with Galleria Duemila entitled High Wire High Seas. She inquires into diverse impressions resulting from the sudden influx of (Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators) POGO-related working Chinese nationals into the country. As she does a balancing act with her own sentiments on the issue, she asks “Is this related to the Belt and Road initiative, the global economic expansion of China?”
In conversation with Orange Project consultant Gina Olivares-Jocson and Rica Estrada, CCP Officer-in-Charge of the Visual Arts and Museum Division, Josephine opens a window into her studio practice and talks us through her nomadic relation to various forms of media, which allows her to explore her obsessions of socio political narratives, reflecting on the textural layers and meanings that inform her artistic response.
Josephine Turalba holds an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute New York (USA) and Donau-Universität Krems (Austria). She has served as Dean at the School of Fine Arts and Design at Philippine Women’s University and received grants from the Council for Arts MIT, Art Omi International, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Vermont Studio Center, Fondation La Roche–Jacquelin. Her works have been exhibited at ICA Singapore, London Biennale, European Cultural Center (concurrent 56th Venice Biennale), 12th Cairo Biennale, VII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Malta Contemporary Art Center, and Cultural Center Philippines.
Georgina Luisa “Gina” O. Jocson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (Honorable Mention) from the Ateneo de Manila University and a Master of Arts in Asian Art Histories from LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore). She is the curator of “Istorya conTEXT: Amon Ni” (Orange Project, Art Fair Philippines 2020); “Not Another Mother And Child” (Orange Project, 2019); and “UNREFINING SUGARLANDIA” (Negros Museum, 2018). Her research interests are Philippine contemporary art, focusing on art from Negros and the Visayas region; curatorship; and art center management and programming. Her master’s thesis on the Negrense artist collective, Black Artists in Asia, and its impact on the art landscapes of Negros Occidental and the Visayas, has been accessioned into the collections of the National Library of Singapore, the Rizal Library of the Ateneo de Manila University, the Cultural Center of the Philippines Library, and the Filipinas Heritage Library.
Rica Estrada is a museum-worker based in Manila, Philippines. She graduated with a BFA in Art Management from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2005 and is currently finishing her Masters in Art Studies, Major in Art History, at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Estrada is, at present, Officer-in-Charge of the Visual Arts and Museum Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Independently, she is Vice President of the Association of Greater Manila Area Museums, and is co-founder of Visual Pond and Teaching Exhibitions.
