Faye Pamintuan & Poeleen Alvarez
October 15 – November 5, 2022
Opening
Saturday, October 15 | 4 PM
Altro Mondo Creative Space
1159 Chino Roces Avenue, San Antonio Village, 1203 Makati
The act of wandering is an invitation for play. When we start to question things, we open doors to new perspectives, possibilities and magic. Wandering is not about reaching a specific destination. Instead, it is about allowing ourselves to experience freedom—and let our body, mind and soul roam free. Wandering encourages a willingness and openness to fully engage with life and the unknown. To allow ourselves to be pushed beyond our comfort zones towards the unbound.
A wanderer follows the path of indeterminacy–to allow, listen to hunches, daydream, flow, immerse, imagine, ramble, uncover, look, brainstorm, investigate, get lost, be in the moment, be idle, and play.
John Cage once described writing music as !…purposeless play…This play, however, is an affirmation of life–not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we”re living, which is so excellent once one gets one”s mind and one”s desires out of its way and lets it act on its own accord”. Similarly, another approach to making art is through purposeless play. To create art for its own sake. To create without knowing the final image.
Both Faye Pamintuan and Poeleen Alvarez embody the energy of !Play-Do” by choosing to create from a more intuitive, spontaneous and playful approach. To be led by their wonderings–exploring, experimenting, allowing and making room for the unexpected. In the process, they discover, rediscover and unearth new worlds, formations and landscapes to traverse even if only in their minds.
– Danna Espinosa
