Group show with works by Carlo Aranton, Ian Carlo Jaucian, Leeroy New, Adeodatus Sta. Juana and Ioannis Sicuya

Opening Reception :    
Tuesday, January 18 · 6:00pm - 10:00pm

Exhibit runs til 2 February 2011

The human capacity for adaptation is only limited by the imagination. The verity of this worn truism owes to the fact that the imagination is one of the most powerful instruments for transformation insofar as it envisions possibilities beyond whatever it is that we currently hold as factual or conceivable. Moreover, the imagination not only affects our capacity to adapt to our needs, it is also capable of influencing our perceptions of necessity. The notion of an ideal world, for instance, can be regarded as a fantasy construct that subsequently leads to seeing present conditions as leaving much to be desired. Such a fantasy generates an imperative to adapt in order to meet needs that only a moment ago did not exist.

The works in the exhibition take off from the concept of adaptations. They are presented both as minor visions of alterity and as contemplations on the repercussions and significance of adaptations as well as the discourses that generate them. Here we are asked what if, why, and what now (or then)—questions of consequence that place adaptation in a purposive context. From the paradigms of industrial efficiency and control, to the idealized body and the fantasies foisted upon it as object, the works here present queries that hope to arrive at a better understanding of the processes that inform change.

- excerpts from the exhibition notes by POG "ANTARES" BARTOLOME