Opening
May 23, 2021
Imprimatura Gallery
99 Sct. Lozano St., Diliman, Quezon City
Tarangkahan shows the significance of the present to the seemingly overwhelming duality of time—past and future. Taking inspiration from Roman mythology’s Janus the Gatekeeper, the artists exhibit gates as a representation of the line between the past and the future. Similar to Janus, we too are gatekeepers. Gatekeepers not only of the things moving around us but also of the things beginning within us. We hold gates that decide what goes through to the place that lies ahead.
In the abstraction of time, the past is unchangeable and the future appears to be a path already laid for us. We may feel helpless in the (double) face of time, however, we are not. Time travels in one direction but its track is not just structured by the past and the future but of the present as well. The present that is a gift and our power—a place where we find our freewill.
The present takes the thinnest space in time but is not incomprehensible to see that it weighs the heaviest in time’s triangle. The meaning and the significance of the past is what we make of it in the present. And, the future, no matter how forged, will never be absolute because of the chances we have at the moment. Entering, opening, closing, climbing, or whatever it is we do with the gates is within our hands. We all have the power, and should also have the COURAGE to push through the gates that are barriers from the world that we want to see ourselves in.
“Ang bukas ay bubukas lamang kung ito ay iyong bubuksan.”
Join Carlmel Belda, Christian Carillaza, Emard Canedo, Ram Castillo, Benedict Simbulan, Franz Vocalan for TARANGKAHAN on 23 May 2021.
