"Tahi Tagning Pagsibol" @ NCCA Gallery
TAHI-TAGNING PAGSIBOL
By KASIBULAN, Group Exhibition
March 07 – 31, 2022
Coping with physical, emotional and psychological challenges of the COVID crisis through art-making tied up with serving the community has resulted into the exhibition project “Tahi-Tagning Pagsibol”. Translated as “New Life from Sewn Patches,” this art exhibit by the KASIBULAN women artists is featured at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery in Intramuros, Manila, in celebration of Women’s Month.
EXHIBITION NOTE:
By Imelda Cajipe-Endaya
TAHI-TAGNING PAGSIBOL (New Life from Sewn Patches) is about today’s Filipino women rising together, emerging with hope from lives shattered by a two-year pandemic that has disrupted daily living, health, livelihood, well-being, relationships, and mobility. The art exhibit is in two parts: Collaborative Installations at the Open Gallery are by four women artists who sew and facilitate projects with women in their communities doing art on fabric for renewal of social energy, healing of trauma, and livelihood. Individual Artworks in various media at the Closed Gallery are by twenty-two members of KASIBULAN who continue their own unique ways to artistically cope with emotional, psychological and physical pain in the life and death challenges of the COVID crisis. This project has been completed within the prescribed health protocols, digital interaction, and social distancing.
Tahi-Tagning Kwento, Kwento ng mga kababaihan sa karagatan at kabundukan is Yllang Montenegro’s installation of aprons done by members of the AMIHAN National Federation of Peasant Women and the Rural Women Advocates (RUWA), whom she has been mentoring as advocate of women workers’ rights. Together they sew retazos into bags and aprons, stamping designs on them from colors beaten from flowers and leaves in the mountainside or backyard. Tahi-Tagning Kabayanihan is Jing Sinay-Ocampo’s quilt work done from fabric scraps from masks and PPEs sewn and collected by women in Barangay Malued where she lives in Dagupan City. Her very disciplined quilt work based on the hexagonal form recognizes women volunteer responders to the COVID crisis as unsung heroes in the whole sphere of bayanihan spirit. Tahi-Tagning Paghilom by Alma Quinto of Urdaneta, Pangasinan, alludes to personal experiences of mutual caring and moral support by artist-friends in two art organizations, the Art House of Comfort ( ARTHOC) which she initiated, and Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan (KASIBULAN) in collaboration with two of its founders’ caregivers. Caregiver Lani Caccam Maraya from Paranaque sewed yoyo-quilts for the third tapestry representing a herbal garden. Cristina Cayat, a weaver from Benguet currently works as caregiver in Hongkong and co-founded Guhit Kulay, a migrant worker artists’ collective in Hong kong. Tahi-Tagning Pelikula is Eden Ocampo’s installation of video projections of selfies, accentuated by a pabitin from which hang embroidered and stitched cones. The first video loop zooms in on the motion of needle and thread gently pierced, pushed and pulled by nimble fingers of sewers in the art collaborative projects. The second loop focuses on the individual artworks, showing KASIBULAN artists’ motions of drawing, mixing colors, splashing tints, brushing, painting, incising, cutting, pasting, and shaping.
As the pandemic threatens to become endemic, KASIBULAN women have become stronger in their sisterhood of art-making, surviving productively and compassionately, with great faith in the Creator, hope for themselves as whole human persons, for family, community, country and the planet earth.
Other participating artists are: Andree Tiongson, Bea Viado, Bing Famoso, Escobar De Leon, Chie Cruz, Clarisa Navidad, Cristina M. Alsol, ,Elaine Lopez-Clemente , Esther S. Garcia, Fel R. Plata, Ida Robles, Laura Fermo, Lea Zoraina Lim, Len-Len, Raeche Dacanay, Rara Carrillo, Rebie Ramoso, Salve V. Frilles, Tinsley Garanchon, and Vida Soraya Verzosa. The exhibition was curated by Imelda Cajipe Endaya, co-founder of the KASIBULAN feminist artists’ organization.
Curated by Imelda Cajipe Endaya, this is the featured exhibit for Women's Month at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Galleries in Intramuros. Manila. Exhibition runs March 7-31, 2022.
Open @ 9am to 3 pm mondays to thursdays only.
For inquiries, email:kasibulanwomenartists@gmail.com
A Reflection of the innerself with full of possibilities and hopes for herself and the future generation. Imparting wisdom in learning to face your own shadow so you may continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you. Finding meaning to ones purpose and greater self.
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