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Lui Medina
29 November 2011 – 02 January 2012
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29 November 2011 – 02 January 2012
My investigation revolves around the concept of limits, both of experience as well as of self. Both act as starting points in the attempt to go beyond common human perception. My practice seeks to address that position between the boundaries of the visible and the invisible; I am interested in the anxieties, physicalities, and metaphysicalities that transpire within the dichotomies of emotion and reason, the sacred and the profane, spirituality and sensuality.
The materiality of the immaterial, depth, and transcendence create the platform on which my enquiry lies and, at the same time, are the very ideas I question. Contradiction and conflict are recurring elements in my work. I am interested in creating a certain tension: a state of unease and agitation between holding back and letting go, of revealing and concealment—aspects that happen to be one of the driving forces of my interrogation.
My works and processes explore the idea of objecthood and object-making, in which material and the ritual of making are signifiers that attempt to verbalise the continuity and intimate relationships that take place between the works, as well as between myself and my practice. Material is substance and significance; process and making are involvements—and all play a part in the effort to reach that state of sensory and psychological experience within my practice.
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About the Artist
About the Artists
Lui Medina (b. 1981) is born in Manila, Philippines, who continues to interrogate form and figure using landscapes as framework. She finished her BFA in Fine Arts, Major in Painting at the University of the Philippines, and later on took up MFA in Fine Arts – Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
From geologic to geographical forms, this interest in shapes and the organic has in turn also shaped the canvases and materials that she uses for her drawings and paintings.
Medina has had numerous exhibitions at Associazione Quasi Quadro, Turin, Italy, Finale Art Finale, Mag:net Art Gallery, and Silverlens gallery. She also has been part of group exhibitions at the Langgeng Art Foundation in Yogyakarta (2017), Mind Set Art Center in Taipei (2016), and Equator Art Projects in Singapore (2015). She was also shortlisted for her shows Lui Medina and Metamorphic Histories at the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art.
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Lui Medina (b. 1981) is born in Manila, Philippines, who continues to interrogate form and figure using landscapes as framework. She finished her BFA in Fine Arts, Major in Painting at the University of the Philippines, and later on took up MFA in Fine Arts – Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK.
From geologic to geographical forms, this interest in shapes and the organic has in turn also shaped the canvases and materials that she uses for her drawings and paintings.
Medina has had numerous exhibitions at Associazione Quasi Quadro, Turin, Italy, Finale Art Finale, Mag:net Art Gallery, and Silverlens gallery. She also has been part of group exhibitions at the Langgeng Art Foundation in Yogyakarta (2017), Mind Set Art Center in Taipei (2016), and Equator Art Projects in Singapore (2015). She was also shortlisted for her shows Lui Medina and Metamorphic Histories at the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art.
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