Assembly

Curated by Gwen Bautista

June 14, 2019 at 6 PM

Galerie Roberto
Unit 4, Molito Lifestyle Extension Bldg. Madrigal Avenue corner Commerce Avenue, Alabang, 1776 Muntinlupa City

In this exhibition, art-making is observed and compared with how the modern world looks at an assembly line. With artists coming from different backgrounds and practices, what ties them all together is an understanding of how things are constructed, usually by hand. In Gestalt laws of grouping, it has been observed that humans carry a natural ability to perceive objects and patterns based on certain rules. Here, ideas that range from construction, deconstruction, fragmentation, and sequencing are manifested in visual forms. The process of assembling and arranging objects is as important as the images; to simplify art-making as a way of producing objects is to reduce and discount the human capacity to critical perception. Hence, “Assembly” proceeds to present the artist’s bodily relationship with the material at hand.

However, the absence of capitalism when we speak of assembly lines, is unacceptable. In this exhibition, the artists welcome ideas and criticism of mass production. The works in this exhibition take the responsibility of presenting differing perspectives in critiques when we think of capitalist modes of production. Perhaps, what we lose and what we miss, in a supply chain and in assembly lines, are the things that make us human—the exact same things that have become a nuisance to a world obsessed with efficiency and gains. And so, art remains to be one of those things where every part and every fragment is still looked and scrutinized. What we assemble and who assembles them has become weapons of how we would like to arrange and dis-arrange this world.

– Gwen Bautista

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