Dateline: 10 October 2018, Casa La Granja, La Paz, Iloilo City
Was able to catch Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia on its last day, 06 October 2018. It was the country's exhibition of contemporary art in the region on the occasion of the 50th year of the ASEAN. There were three venues, and was able to visit one, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila; the other venues were Yuchengco Museum in Makati City, and the UP Vargas Museum in Quezon City. In the program notes:
Taken from the ASEAN Declaration in 1967, the phrase 'ties of history' may allude to the blessings and burdens of being together and being different in a region that is thought to be shared. The works of the artists speak to this complex and productive condition as they express the many ways by which the various strands of subjectivity as citizen-artists weave and unravel in the project of making selves in particular places, making nations in an international world, and making regions across forests and islands in the geopoetic gestures of contemporary art.Above is a juxtaposition two works in the exhibit, "Magdalo Magdiwang" by Roberto Feleo of the Philippines, and "Plantscape" by Anusapati of Indonesia.
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