April 11 – May 17
Pablo Gallery
South of Market Residences, Taguig
Petals and The Evergreen is a parallel meditation by Jay Yao and Olivia d’Aboville on the fragile and austere exquisiteness of nature.
Jay Yao, who had been enamored by a coniferous tree he continually takes a picture of each time he travels to Canada, posits this series of photos and the process by which he undertakes them as a form of Haiku, invoking the Japanese idea of negative space or “Ma” : “In haikus, the simplification of words, encourages the viewers to create their own narratives. The reader is forced to create meaning due to the few words within a haiku. As an art form, the camera is the closest tool a person can use to archiving reality, and while a single image is usually seen as documentary evidence, as viewers we can’t help but create our own personal narratives once two or more images are grouped together.
While documentary evidence of the tree is presented to the viewer in a clear visual manner through the photographs, the arrangement of the works within the installation and the space between the works creates further internal dialogue.”
Recycling and up-cycling plays a big part in Olivia’s artistic approach. For her pieces in Petals and The Evergreen, she transformed an existing large scale tapestry of hers into new individual smaller light boxes.
For 3 months, she gathered discarded orchids and lilies from the Manila Peninsula Hotel and carefully dried the thousands of petals. The process was laborious and repetitive, consistent with her usual practice. She paired her light boxes with wall bound textile sculptures made of handwoven pina and silk, inspired by flora from her imagination.
Petals and The Evergreen opens on Saturday 11th of April at 6PM at Pablo The Fort. It will be on view until the 17th of May 2015.
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