Ateneo Art Gallery | Ayala Museum | Bahay Tsinoy | Lopez Memorial Museum | Museo Pambata

 

Lopez Memorial Museum's Zero In offering for the year explores the notion of access in several registers—as projections unto transcendent spirituality, claims to truth, desired status or positions of power, and mobility. While reckoning with the idea that 'bridging' suggests transitioning from one point to another, the exhibition, Keeping the Faith also makes room for re-presentations of skewed situations where relationships between point of origin and destination are governed by a power wielder and those wanting for power, as well as more innocuous parallels as is the case for those hoping to move from an assumed inferior to perceived-to-be superior state. The exhibition investigates these in relation to works from the museum collection by artists such as Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Ang Kiukok, Bencab, and Pablo Amorsolo. Featured contemporary artist is Kiri Dalena, who will be creating an installation referencing images from the Lopez library archive of materials from the martial law period. Her work will appear alongside video documentation by Egay Navarro and Rica Concepcion of the 1992 performance of the late Roberto Villanueva in Naguri, Japan, as well as sculptural work from Agnes Arellano. Keeping the Faith will run from November 14, Alwin Reamillo, 2008until April 4, 2009 at the Lopez Museum.