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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Powers That Be is a group exhibition featuring Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Yason Banal, Gaston Damag, Roberto Feleo, Riel Hilario, Kat Medina, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, John Frank Sabado and Mark Salvatus. These works are gathered to develop an overview of conditions surrounding notions of the sovereign. The artists from the Philippines recognize the sovereign’s contemporary forms. In effect, they problematize how we navigate through neocolonialism, peculiar systems of particular cultures vis-à-vis consumerist realities, history’s debris in a cosmopolitan world and the shadows of power. Among other subjects, the artists in Powers That Be also touch upon ecology and industrial waste from the perspective of the Mountain Regions, urban territories, (re)presentations of indigenous Filipino culture and the diaspora across the country’s colonial history.
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