Project Belonging: From There to Here. The Familiar in the Foreign | Artists' and Curator's Talk

“Project Belonging: From There to Here. The Familiar in the Foreign” is the second half of the two-part exhibition curated by Spain-based Filipino curator Kristine Guzmán, featuring Filipino Artist-Couple Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan with guest artist Enrique Marty. The show is on view at the Wilson L Sy Prints and Drawings Gallery, 2F Ateneo Art Gallery from 9 November 2024 to 16 April 2025.
In “The Familiar in the Foreign,” the artistic practice of Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan is intermingled in their lives as migrants, using objects that are both familiar and strange as these serve as signifiers in themselves, holding memories and sentiments. After eighteen years, they return to their homeland, bringing back with them a series of wrapped objects in the installation "Nothing to Declare" (2024), placed atop blue plastic pallets.
Most of these are personal objects that were collected throughout the years and seem to float in the sea amidst "Horizon Line" (2017-2024), a collection of postcards with images of maritime landscapes. They represent an act of collecting, a collaborative process where individual narratives become part of a greater whole. Like the ‘balikbayan’ boxes that represented their departure, the wrapped objects speak about their return - a future to be revealed - in a continuous performance intertwining art and life.
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Video by Clefvan Pornela
“Project Belonging: From There to Here” is supported in part by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), a state agency. Part 2, “The Familiar in the Foreign,” will be on-view from 9 November 2024 - 16 April 2025 at the second floor, Wilson L Sy Prints & Drawings Gallery.
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