The works of 13 artists have a complicated connection between passion, dispassionateness, criticism, and futility to look at oneself
and society. Geraldine JAVIER constantly questions her racial, religious, and social identities and discusses the conditions and fate
that classify her. Alfredo & Isabel AQUILIZAN expresses complex identities through nomadic life and experiences of separation.
Lesley DE CHAVEZ deals with a particular history, political event, or place as the main subject of his work,
questioning collective memories and the ‘frames’ of situations that define him,
and demonstrating his attempts to dismantle and reconstruct him from new perspectives.
Eko NUGROHO metaphors problems of reality effectively through allegorical language or cartoons.
《Beacons of Archipelago》 is a large-scale group exhibition of Southeast Asian artists, and you can read the current state of
Southeast Asian contemporary art has occurred spontaneously by experiencing pain and poverty, social anxiety, and injustice
caused by modernization, corruption and violence, racial and religious conflicts.
This publication is an exhibition catalog for 《Beacons of Archipelago》
held from December 9 2010 to January 16 2011 at ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN and SEOUL.
