Coz' We Dont Fucking Care

This installation depict the anarchy in nature, which is a part of humankind. The precise detail reflects another side of human nature: the need to lose control and create dark structures in our life. These elements represent the wholeness of our opposites. No walls. No restrictions. No politics or religion. No rules. In fact you’re liberating from it all.

My artwork shows some rebellious characters such as audacious, mean hippies, each composed of irrational behaviors. They found this new glory within themselves and couldn’t care about the greater forces beyond. All matter is the happiness they extracted from self-emancipation. 

When we give up trying to hold onto the righteous ideas or another and embrace the contradiction, the experience can be liberating, opening new possibilities of consciousness. But still it’s simple as you know who you are inside and you know how this consciousness takes place.

Medium: carboard (balikbayan boxes), acrylic, t-shirts
Size: varied

CONFESSIONS OF A SINNER

 September 17 , 2011

Manila Contemporary

Featuring: Catalina Africa, Poklong Anading, Felix Bacolor, Andres Barrioquinto, Ronald Caringal, Kawayan de Guia, Dexter Fernandez, Denis Lagdameo, Nikki Luna, Maria Jeona, Pow Martinez and Christina Quisumbing Ramilo

The last in a trilogy of group exhibitions that looks at the communication of fundamental human experiences (love, hate and faith) Confessions of a Sinner highlights and questions the need for redemption and faith in contemporary society. Purposefully taking as a starting point the religious landscape of Catholic Philippines the show aims to present the confessional side of contemporary art.

Artists have been invited to share once more, intimate personal stories as well as socio-cultural observations on sin and the need for absolution. A problematic term in regards to who sets the parameters of wrong behavior, sin is a religious term that goes against established notions of morality and the authority of God. It can occur through physical actions as well as inner thoughts that are immoral, selfish, shameful, harmful or alienating.Provoking the relationship between Art and Religion, Confessions of a Sinner creates a point of departure to consider human weakness. However, rather than providing a framework for morality like traditional religious art it aims to deconstruct the human desire for redemption through faith in God or personal revelation. In addition, it highlights the structure of the art gallery as a pseudo spiritual/religious home for objects that take on reverential status when placed within the white cube or museum space. Creating a concentrated space the exhibition problematizes notions of sin, forgiveness and faith for new visual and social critique.