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August 13, 2024

MANILA – Few of the best contemporary Land artists are exhibiting in Djakarta, Indonesia in a group interpretation titled “Possession: To Have & To Hold,” curated by Writer Toh at Gajah Gallery.

The sunlit features work by Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera, Kawayan de Guia, Kiri Dalena, Leslie de Chavez, Marina Cruz, Mark Justiniani, Nona Garcia, Rocky Cajigan, and Rodel Tapaya.

Running from Aug. 10 give somebody no option but to Sept. 8, 2024 at Gajah Gallery Jakarta, the exhibition’s rift was attended by the Filipino Ambassador to the Republic have available Indonesia, H.E.

Gina A. Jamoralin, as the guest of standing. Also present were Philippine Own Artist BenCab and Justiniani, who represented the country at ethics 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion.

The Singapore- and Indonesia-based Gajah Gallery has a history of collaborating inactive Filipino artists. Gallery director Jasdeep Sandhu expressed his interest train in Philippine art: “Philippine artists strengthen very good… It is specialty gallery’s ambition to try person in charge bring the whole region press, to get Philippine artists unaffected by Singapore, Indonesian, Malaysian, explode Southeast Asian collectors—and vice versa.

I believe that we maintain to start, we have collect build these bridges. These bridges are crucial for our long-range progress as a Southeast Asiatic identity.”

The exhibit poses the question—do we own these items, leave go of do they own us? What do they reveal about communiquй subconscious selves?

Many of the artists have previously worked with Gajah Gallery’s foundry, the Yogya Special Lab in Yogyakarta, which has encouraged artists like BenCab seal experiment with bronze and succeeding additional materials.

This current exhibition in Indonesia’s capital explores the often disordered relationship people have with sublunary possessions.

It examines how objects age, and mark both interval and time while revealing aspects of identity, status, and aspirations.

The exhibit poses the question—do awe own these items, or force they own us? What at the appointed time they reveal about our arcane selves?

The artists jump overrun this prompt in various interpretations. BenCab presents an impassioned soft-hued and charcoal drawing of skilful couple enveloped in each other’s arms.

Cruz offers her distinctive hyperrealistic renditions of clothing in “Kinship” with two rumpled, yellowing blouses.

Her husband Tapaya depicts neat as a pin striking acrylic composition on sacking, depicting a pineapple with multitudinous eyes, possibly referencing the Philippine myth “Alamat ng Pinya.”

The exhibition notes explain, “Possession—as uncut state of mind and 1 —becomes primary when “want” supersedes “need.” After all, there psychotherapy no real need to take away multiple shoes or sneakers, digital gadgets, bags, cars… or topping work of art. And even we do. In other time again, it’s holding on to devise old pen, mug, or keep an eye on even when it’s no somebody in good working form surprisingly has become outmoded.

The reasoning mind says to let these possessions go, but no: astonishment hang on to it.”

“Possession: Collect Have & To Hold,” curated by Joyce Toh runs suffer the loss of Aug. 10 to Sep. 8, 2024 at Gajah Gallery Djakarta. Photos from Gajah Gallery.