Things That Are Not Supposed To Work But Do
Personal beliefs created through social constructs define how we move and perceive the environment we inhabit in. More often, these experiences are based on beliefs that challenges sciences and factual truths. “Things that are not supposed to work but do.” delineate personal accounts of the artist of such phenomenon. From Buddhist mantras that offers not...
Limbo Paradise
The need for escape is as deeply-rooted in the human psyche as are our more primal behaviours, yet it is often in strange times like these that such a need becomes all-encompassing. As the world has come to a standstill, we find ourselves drawn to the comfort and allure of better days—of wide open spaces...
Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
So It Goes
In Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt, Iyan de Jesus continues her portrayal of her fine-featured yet steel-strong maidens, this time staging them with legendary unicorns as a means to make sense of grief and loss while creating beauty out of painful remembrances. In the exhibition, the narrative of the artist's pieces take...
Decision Rapida
“Wrong place at a wrong time.” “Accident waiting to happen.” “Deus ex machina.” These are just some of the expressions people use when referring to the sudden appearance of an unforetold event, whose effects, especially when they are devastating, are always chalked up to Divine Providence, destiny, or sheer unluck. The influence of human element...
