Recent & On-Going Projects
ARTIST AS CITIZEN, ARTWORLD AS NATION
January 2018 to Present
My current project explores the concept of “Artist as Citizen, Artworld as Nation” anchored on Arthur Danto’s The Artworld and Maria Serena Diokno’s Becoming a Filipino Citizen: Perspectives of Citizenship and Democracy. It attempts to confront the meanings and roles of the words, segmented and as a composed cluster. I am now working on manifestations of my continued contemplation articulated in the essay Formation Through Envisioning an Artworld Public: Identifying Member as Citizens and the Artworld as a Nation published in the book Traffic in 2017. First work for this project was a banner complemented by a zine Compilation of Writings, 2015-2017 for the exhibition Periphery in Batangas, 2018.
FEELINGS
2016 to Present
This on-going project makes use of my husband's discards from his paper cut artworks. The portability of the materials allows me to respond to creative impulses in the midst of domestic routines. The generative collection of drawings depicts my navigation of womanhood through ruminating on themes of housework, personal space and ideology. Iterations have been exhibited at the 27F Studio, The Drawing Room Gallery, Gallery Roberto and vMeme Contemporary. A version of the discards was also installed at Yokota School in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate, Japan.
