UnderEXPOSED

Monday, February 16
at 5:00pm

NCCA Gallery
633 General Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts Gallery and Fringe Manila

UnderEXPOSED
Featuring the works of Paulo Abe, Kelvin Atmadibrata, and Daniel Djamo

Opening:
Monday, February 16, 2015

Exhibit Details:
February 16 to March 1, 2015

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UnderEXPOSED is a three-man exhibit that unearths the (un)truths, experiences, and social consciousness of an individual. The art that we see right now is bold, new, and unapologetic – driven by one’s desire to challenge cultural myths and personal identities; it is a reflection of how we are perceived as people and how we react as art practitioners.

Daniel Djamo (b.1987, lives and works in Bucharest) is a young Romanian artist and film director, being interested in personal and group histories. He combines film with video art and installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline “the now.”

Winner of the ESSL award, Henkel Art.Award. Young artist prize CEE, Startpoint Prize Romania and the Grand Prize of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest.

Daniel benefited from residencies in Paris, Kassel, Chemnitz, Bruxelles, Vienna and Liege. He exhibited at the Museum of Moscow, Kunsthaus Dresden, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and the ESSL museum from Vienna, while also presenting his works in Germany, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, USA, Russia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Estonia etc. His video artworks have been screened in numerous video art and film festivals.

He is a PhD candidate at the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest.

Kelvin Atmadibrata (b.1988, Jakarta, Indonesia) recruits superpowers awakened by puberty and adolescent fantasy to assemble formidable armies of outlaws. Equipped by shōnen characters and macho ero-kawaii, his antiheroes contest the masculine and erotica in Southeast Asia.
He works primarily with performances, often accompanied by and translated into drawings, mixed media collages and objects compiled as installations. Approached as multi disciplinary projects, Kelvin recreates narratives and characters based on RPGs (Role-playing video games) theories. These are often journeyed indefinitely as his works are heavily inspired by Konami’s genso Suikoden (幻想水滸伝), an RPG based on a late 14th century Chinese historical fiction, Shui Hu Zhuan (水滸傳). Also known as the Water Margin or All Men Are Brothers, it tells a story of 108 pariah forming an ominous army.

Kelvin is assembling his own editions of 108 rejects as a fanon of genso Suikoden. Partially canon and fan fictions, the characters are visualized through hyper-masculine spectacles as the artist manipulates folklores, myths and historical narratives, creating versions with all-male populations of characters and demi-humans.

Kelvin Atmadibrata graduated with Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) majoring in Interactive Media from School of Art, Design and Media in Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. Previously based in Singapore for a decade, he now lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia and runs PADJAK (Performance Art di Jakarta), a bi-monthly performance art gathering in the city.