Nice will present a spontaneous encounter in two parts. Between continuing to work and parenting a new child, the artist has turned to instinct as both an artistic and maternal tool. The new images are playful and tongue-in-cheek instead of being calculated and straight-edged. The result is a union of conceptual and procedural strains in her practice, containing meticulous hand-drawn recreations of print errors that found renewed meaning in the new acrylic and graphite works. These random specks and streaks that were once comfortable within their technological narratives venture out into uncharted waters: the archipelagic, the Gaian. Old concerns manifest as new ones on a path shaped by the ebb and flow of criticality and tenderness, which is decidedly non-linear. These oscillations include the belief that moving forward means moving backward and a durable visual language that seeks to prove it.
Between continuing to work and parenting a new child, the artist has turned to instinct as both an artistic and maternal tool.
13 Artists Award Exhibition 2021
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
Photo from the Artist
Nice Buenaventura is a visual artist and lecturer from Manila, whose methods revolve around offloading tensions, between ethics and aesthetics, through drawing, painting, installation, and citizen ethnography. This practice extends to her project Tropikalye, a mutual co-learning resource on vernacular culture in tropical and postcolonial Philippines. Using various strategies and modes of productivity allows her work to become generative expressions of concern, exploring new semantics adapted to change scenarios and future conditions.
13 Artists Award Exhibition 2021
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
Photo from the Artist
Nice Buenaventura holds double postgraduate degrees in media and art technology from Queen Mary, University of London, and Ateneo de Manila University. She has presented work and participated in art-adjacent projects in Bacolod [PH], Bangkok, London, Manila, Melbourne, Ruang [MY], Singapore, and Zurich. In 2021, she received the Cultural Center of the Philippines – Thirteen Artists Award and the Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zóbel Prize for Visual Art.
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