PMP Paintings #1 featuring Aleezon (Portions of the work PMP #2-5 were converted as wearable paintings, a tote bag as a gift to friends and the host) salvaged polyvinyl chloride from Singapore national campaigns, bleached machine dyed poly cotton, water, and aerosol on cotton 2023
and land erodes into
Fyerool Darma
Nice Buenaventura
Archipelagic Futurisms is a curatorial project initiated by curator and critic Carlos Quijon, Jr. Imagined as an iterative and traveling exhibition, publication, and research platform, Archipelagic Futurisms proposes a curriculum for thinking about how archipelagic conditions and dispositions can help rethink how we imagine global contemporaries and futures. In considering the archipelagic as a conceptual and curatorial framework, Archipelagic Futurisms is an attempt to discern historical, contemporary, and futurist possibilities of compositing together histories of knowledges, lifeworlds, ecologies, and art/artmaking in order to conceptualize an “archipelagic practice.” For this project, the archipelagic is an interventive agency that proposes alternative ways of imagining translocal and transregional affinities. It is an agency that fleshes out inventions of the future that reconsider the workings of coloniality and its entanglements across expansive geographies and seas of islands.
Each project proposes a particular point of entry to the conceptualizations of the “archipelagic.” For its first edition, Archipelagic Futurisms presents and land erodes into, an exhibition developed for Calle Wright in Manila presenting works by Nice Buenaventura (b. 1984, Philippines) and Fyerool Darma (b. 1987, Singapore).
From the circulation of industrial materials, poetic and sound forms to choreographies of dispersal through seriality and contingency to inflections of media and abstraction brought about by archipelagic connections, and land erodes into explores how these aesthetic tendencies proffer different ways of constituting knowledge and practice against the singularity and fixity of continental frames. The trope of erosion fleshes out an archipelagic disposition that is transformative and generative: weathering and wearing away, eroding existing knowledge and practice systems into fragments and sediment that in turn assemble or coalesce into other possibilities and variant iterations.
Exhibition identity by @_alex.paredes
Image Caption: Screenshot 11-03-2023 at 03:03 PM (philhuat 2GO) featuring rawanXberdenyut, LKS, Lé Luhur
[Set of wall installation of 6 polymeric paintings with hand cut vinyl) featuring rawanXberdenyut, LKS and Lé Luhur Polymethyl methacrylate (Acrylic Tiger), epoxy resin (Samurai 2K), offcut chameleon carbon fibre polyvinyl chloride and polyacrylate adhesive (Vvivid XPO) on anodized aluminium alloy, polyurethane varnish on digital print on polyethylene vinyl (Oracle), honeycomb retroreflective tape (Grip-On), non metalized reflective tape (Steve & Leif) on polymethyl methacrylate (Acrylic Tiger)
2023
Dimensions variable
