Established artists from the Philippines whose practices investigate how their work, lifestyles and realities make up a complex society are featured in The Drawing Room, a gallery founded in Manila by director Cesar Villalon Jr. in 1998. The gallery features Philippine Contemporary Art icons such as Kiko Escora, and Kawayan de Guía along with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, and Jose Legaspi who are critically acclaimed internationally. The Drawing Room supports interdisciplinary art processes, presents works at international art fairs, and also collaborates with public art institutions in Manila and the region to exhibit and acquire Filipino contemporary art.
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m/b LOCOMATE is a voyage of memory. New works in the exhibition enrich the metaphors Diokno Pasilan explores in his art practice about people and communities. Particularly informed by the motions of an islander people from the Philippines – a community where the artist grew up in – m/b Locomote constructs portraits from rust and into rice containers colloquial to the community.
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m/b LOCOMATE is a voyage of memory. Recent and new works in the exhibition enrich the metaphors Diokno Pasilan explores in his art practice about people and communities. Particularly informed by the motions of an islander people from the Philippines – a community where the artist grew up in – m/b Locomote constructs portraits from rust and into rice containers colloquial to the community. Pasilan then caps off this peculiar journey back with ambient synecdoches of boat-making. It is a language of local craft and a history of islands that are people. In this entire assemblage of works, the artist weaves stories and narratives, responds to local conditions, and plays the role of a visitor who is neither distant nor alien from his subjects. He returns in m/b LOCOMOTE.
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