It is hard to tell where reality ends and illusion begins.
Exploring the paths that connect our inner and outer sights, the exhibition records the transitions that take place during a specific bio-rhythmic setting. Within this zone, activities like automatic painting, meditating, forming new habits manifest. Exercises were made on translating something hard to translate such as an aura in painting, visual vibrations, and the awareness that a moment passes with every stroke. Projecting these visions is like going on a trip.
Take a moment to reflect on the things that are not there physically. Make sure you are not echoing old tricks to get new results. Look for a link, a crack, a gap; look for that space where reality and illusion blends and separates.
About the Artist
About the Artists
Gail Vicente (b. 1984, Quezon City) is an artist working in painting, assemblage, sculpture, embroidery and text. Her practice contemplates the essence of everyday objects within domestic and communal spaces. Through her intermedia approach, she reimagines the deeply layered histories of found objects, imbuing them with renewed meanings and values. After relocating to Baguio in 2020, she began exploring local materials and practices interwoven with the textures and rhythms of the mountainous landscape.
Her background in archiving and art conservation informs her broader practice as an artist, in which her works become objects of reinterpretation, reflecting her ongoing engagement with language, materiality and objecthood. From 2007 to 2009, Vicente served as a researcher for The Roberto Chabet Archive, a project dedicated to archiving the body of work of pioneering Filipino conceptual artist Roberto Chabet. For more than a decade, she worked as a conservator, collections manager, and archivist at the non-profit art organization King Kong Art Projects Unlimited. In 2019, Vicente was awarded a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to conduct research on art conservation and archiving in New York. She completed training in conservation, particularly in the mediums of paper and painting.
She co-founded artist-run initiatives, including Project 20 in Manila and the online platform for Cordillera-based artists, No Space
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Gail Vicente (b. 1984, Quezon City) is an artist working in painting, assemblage, sculpture, embroidery and text. Her practice contemplates the essence of everyday objects within domestic and communal spaces. Through her intermedia approach, she reimagines the deeply layered histories of found objects, imbuing them with renewed meanings and values. After relocating to Baguio in 2020, she began exploring local materials and practices interwoven with the textures and rhythms of the mountainous landscape.
Her background in archiving and art conservation informs her broader practice as an artist, in which her works become objects of reinterpretation, reflecting her ongoing engagement with language, materiality and objecthood. From 2007 to 2009, Vicente served as a researcher for The Roberto Chabet Archive, a project dedicated to archiving the body of work of pioneering Filipino conceptual artist Roberto Chabet. For more than a decade, she worked as a conservator, collections manager, and archivist at the non-profit art organization King Kong Art Projects Unlimited. In 2019, Vicente was awarded a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to conduct research on art conservation and archiving in New York. She completed training in conservation, particularly in the mediums of paper and painting.
She co-founded artist-run initiatives, including Project 20 in Manila and the online platform for Cordillera-based artists, No Space
Related Exhibitions
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