Visual artists, Cezar Arro. Marrz Capanang, John Paul Castillo, Leoniel Cerbas, Richard dela Cruz, Rommel Garde, Jeffrey Guanlao, Jeline Laporga, Mark Nativo, Jzy Tilos, and Arel Zambarrano open a group exhibition at Ysobel Art Gallery at the Serendra, Taguig City. Titled Sinirayu the show will open with a reception on Aug 15, 6 p.m. and will run up to August 26, 2014.
Sinirayu is the Hiligaynon term scenario or situation, the thematic crux of this collection of paintings.
The exhibition relates to the social drama of peculiar scenarios or situations that pitches a process of change between places, time and people seen through its dissonances and the toll of its exigent terms. The artists explore various visual representations of conjured response to both the changing cultural landscape of Ilo-ilo and the chasms that go with these transformations. These are sort of psychological portraits of places and visible collective sensibilities of people being subject change.
Through its visual conversations of displacement, dislocation and nostalgia, the show also echoes contradictions and subtle contrasts. From physical structures and other markers that evoke the fast and sweeping urbanization and its symbolic economies against what is left of the rustic sensibilities and simpler ways of rural life and its terrains. It tells how people from these locations grapple with disruption and also struggles addresses their identity amid inevitable forces which forms a certain sense of place, memories and meanings.
According to Kristine Buenavista who wrote the accompanying essay for the show, “Sinirayo, Scenario depicts the energy scape of Iloilo. It is commuting through the idealism of the mind and the havoc of the stifling reality, across the mundane and the surreal.”
Buenavista further says, “Sinirayu, Scenario is not just the dialect of this land down South but the universal visual language that transcends. A yearning which echoes the territory of nostalgia, the ambiguity of progress, and the lullabies of the imagination.”
Sinirayo –Scenario runs up to August 26, 2014. Ysobel Gallery is located at 2ND Floor Shops at Serendra, Bonifacio Global City Taguig City. The gallery is open from 11:00am to 9:00pm Monday to Sunday. For more information you may call 09285071117/ 5764758 or email mark.sancheztiongco@gmail.com.
