January 27, 2015 at 5:00pm
SFAD Gallery
Philippine Women’s University, Leon Guinto Street, Malate, 1004 Manila, Philippines
“Fact Sheet” is a serial exhibition project which was started in 2008 by the cultural group Artists’ Arrest, addressing cases of human rights violations that in face of reportage and litigation, reduce the wrenching plight of victims and their families into mere data within case reports persistently documented by human rights advocates.
PWU SFAD, school to some of the art students and alumni participating in and organizing this exhibit, hosts “Fact Sheet 7 – Down The Drain: The Wasted State of Human Rights under the Aquino Regime,” to place it within the space of discourse and learning for young artists whose works speak to their own youthful peers.
Thus articulated, the exhibit could also clue in on culture’s interface with authority, and the tensions that are part of what is contested in precepts of nation, identity and territory. Inevitably, fact migrates into the personal, for issues and repercussions cannot be alienated from the people who embody these facts as human stories.
“Fact Sheet,” for this seventh edition, is a collaborative effort by Artists’ Arrest with Southern Tagalog Exposure, Guni-Guni Collective, UGATLahi Artist Collective and KARAPATAN-Southern Tagalog. It is also a traveling exhibit, having made its caravan through other schools, the commemoration of Human Rights Day in December 2014, and the 28th anniversary of the Mendiola Massacre this January 2015. Its next stop after PWU will be at UP Los Baños.
Exhibit opens on January 27, 2015 5:00 to 8:00pm at the SFAD Studio Gallery. It will run until February 07 and will hold a Discussion on Human Rights and Artists’ Walkthrough on Wednesday, February 04 from 2:00-6:00pm.
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