18 October 2011
Cosmetic Order @ Mo-space
22 October – 20 November
Mo-Space Gallery
3rd Floor, Mo's Design Building
Bonifacio High Street, Taguig
GalleryHours: 11 AM - 8 PM, daily
http://mo-space.net/
Cosmetic order hints at a lurking unease, one that is deliberately glossed over or veiled by trumpeting a sense of détente. In referencing this surface tension, Zamuco, Ramirez, and Floirendo take off from various directions - superficial postures of knowing, politics of representation, downplayed as well as hyped hierarchies, and so on. Coupling photography, video, assemblage, and installation, among a mix of other ways of dealing with materials, these three artists takes converge to suggest the possibilities of agitation through modes ranging from earnest grasping of core spirituality, countervailing image-making, and assertions of positionality and agency.
About the Artists: Oscar Floirendo, Claro Ramirez, and Eric Zamuco are all gradutes of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts with several citations between them, regroup after having first shown together in the 90s.