‘Jouissance’ at Makati Shang

 

“Jouissance,” Alex Cu Unjieng’s exhibit, runs until May 4 at the Makati Shangri-La Manila, in partnership with Hiraya Gallery.

In her exhibit, Vancouver-based printmaker Alex Cu Unjieng calls attention to the multiple ways that the vagina is interpreted in a polite society. “Jouissance” gives both a name and a face to that which has been hidden, condemned, and policed, but in its own way, celebrated.

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Marasigan, Marcelo at Nova

Nova Gallery presents “Just Birit,” a joint exhibit of Alfred Marasigan and Meneer Marcelo, on view until May 6.

Responding to the frenzied text-and-image interaction Filipinos experience everyday both on and offline, the two artists go back to one of the earliest forms of popular entertainment that merge digital technology with human catharsis, pre-Internet.

Nova Gallery is at Warehouse 12 A La Fuerza Plaza, Compound 2241 Don Chino Roces Ave., Makati City.

Ching, Sison in joint show

 

“Traveling on the Edges of Lost Maps,” an exhibit of artworks by Mariano Ching and Yasmin Sison, is on view until May 21 at MO_Space.

The tenuous nature of memory is explored once again by Sison through a series of watercolors that revisits the travel photos of her maternal grandparents. Titled “Pepe and Seang’s Grand Vacation,” it portrays not the couples’ documented tour of Europe and US in 1976 but the disconnect of these places.

Ching’s paintings, in oil and watercolor, are seeming monuments to discarded structures that had crucial use in times of intense armed conflict. Purposefully built to shelter stockade and infantry, these bunkers were used extensively in the previous world wars. Now they lay abandoned, acting as relics that signify the peril and paranoia of a world under precarious shifts of power and systems.