| Friday at 4:00pm - August 17 at 5:00pm | |||||||
| GF West Wing Gallery, Vargas Museum | |||||||
Opening cocktails on 17 June 2011, 4PM - 7PM
c_rafts examines personal stories, collective memories and survival in times of calamity. Salvatus, who used to live in España in the Sampaloc area, departs from his encounters and experiences of Manila floods. Focusing on the ravage of typhoon Ondoy that hit Metro Manila in 2009, it probes the ties between the public and the private, survival and threat, game and play. Rafts made out ...of everyday objects make the viewer re-think perceptions on fear and doubt in relation to the instinct of surviving a disaster. Through these objects, multiple layers of relations and functions are crafted and constructed, further exploring the idea of consumerism, security, urbanism and everyday politics.
Mark Salvatus (b. 1980) graduated Cum Laude from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in Fine Arts major in advertising. He works across disciplines and various media that deal with community, urbanism, accidental encounters and everyday cultures. Winner of the 2010 Ateneo Art Awards, he is the recipient of the residency grants from Common Room Networks Foundation, La Trobe University Visual Arts Center and the New York Art Project (Art Omi). His recent exhibitions include “Stories of Dreams and Realities” at Rossi & Rossi (London), “Vernacular Cultures & Contemporary Art in Australia, India and the Philippines” at La Trobe University Museum of Art, LUMA (Melbourne), “Boat and Bridge_Net” at Space Beam (Incheon) and “Open House” at the 3rd Singapore Biennale.
