About the Event
An interstice is an empty space between things that plays no importance in the composition of objects, a space where minute microorganisms form and develop, where bodily fluids flow between cells. We sense tiny gaps, cracks, and crevices in fields of what we perceive, as part of a reality based on certainty.
This exhibition quietly explores life through the figurative and literal gaps in the world — the cracks and crevices, the interstices — of what it means to be human. The exhibition features the work of Titat Naval Ledesma, whose assemblage and bricolage works are composed of varied materials that communicate personal histories; Iori Espiritu, whose works revolve around the subjects of temporality and impermanence; and Carlos Sevilla’s meditative sculptural works.
In a series called ‘Ekdusis’, Ledesma narrativises shedding off an outer integument as a necessary act of letting go, exposing the intrinsic attachment of ‘being’ to structure, the body itself such a structure. Like tree bark, creased and wrinkled body fragments are embedded within pieces of rubble from a damaged fence, that once surrounded an ancestral home, about to be demolished.
Espiritu emphasizes the psycho-physical tumult of fragile existence through the magnification of biological forms. Her installation of soft sculpture called “Anxiety of Waiting” interprets the experience of being bedridden, where an object of refuge evolves into a disquieting waking dream. An accompanying series of ceramic works reveals different mutations, accumulations, and degenerations that transpire within the body.
Sevilla's works cover themes of impermanence, dichotomy, scientific exploration and the macabre. In this series, the artist explores Froebel's "Unity of Opposites" working with natural and industrial material, fluid and rigid form, revealing somber and scintillant surfaces in a sculptural series of tension and release.