Wednesday, September 2
at 4:00pm
Ateneo Art Gallery
Second Level of Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines
ArtSpeak
Raffy T. Napay & Charles Buenconsejo
*Free admission
Exhibition runs through 12 September 2015
2013 Art Awards winner Raffy T. Napay spent one spring in the England as that year’s recipient of the Liverpool Hope University residency Grant. Known for stitching, tufting, and weaving thread and scrap fabric onto canvas, the Caloocan-based artist drew inspiration from the temperate climes and fairy tale-like wooded surroundings of Liverpool Hope to create Sanctuary: a series of sculptures and wall-bound works that recall his short break from the chaos of Metro Manila, into the forests of the Western World, where the central image of a bird’s nest illustrates the freedom of finding a home while being in transit. Every object in the gallery is made by hand, shrouding the space in softness, while threatening to engulf the viewer; creating sanctuary in every sense of the word.
Like Napay, Charles Buenconsejo also takes a cue from silence, this time using the noise of everyday life to produce Relative Nothing. This time working exclusively with video, the Cebuano photographer spent six weeks at the Visual Arts Center of La Trobe University in Bendigo, Australia as a recipient of the Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Art at the 2014 Ateneo Art Awards. In Bendigo, he filmed his every move—such as walking to and from his studio, entering the gallery— capturing footage of the self while eliminating any potential meaning it may have held, deconstructing the culture of the #selfie and in turn showing how the act of documentation can turn something into nothing.
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