Opening
January 18, 2019 | 6 PM
Project 20 Gallery
20 Maginhawa St., UP Village, Diliman, Quezon City
Works by
Frances Abrigo, Gaea Claver, Michael Mitch Conzon, Goose Industria, and Iya Regalario
PAREIDOLIA
noun
par·ei·do·lia | \ˌper-ˌī-ˈdō-lē-ə, -ˈdōl-yə\
Pareidolia explores the nature of the mind to determine patterns in the obscure. The artists of the exhibition trusts the phenomenon to occur as each spectator immerses into the artworks to participate in a collective psycho-interactive experience. The show pays attention to the role of the viewers as natural meaning-makers–triggered by visual cues that are formed by their own individual psyches.
It is the creation of order out of the visual chaos of random blots, lines, and shapes–as if the absolute purpose of vision was to see only what could be understood, and the task of art was to show only what people want to see. Yet, the grand discovery in this primary psychological tendency is not how we see individually, but how we familiarize as a collective, consequently shaping our communal identity.
PAREIDOLIA brings together a group of visual artists that explore various art disciplines–Frances Abrigo (mixed media), Gaea Claver (mixed media), Goose Industria (visual projections/ digital art), Mitch Conzon (painting), and Iya Regalario (pyrography/ wood art)–each stretching the bounds of their art media to create visual illusions.
