Fffff…
It was the moment of hesitation, when you suddenly felt the urge to scream, yet you chose to stomp your feet or just punch the wall instead as a reaction to whatever it was that bothered you, about something or someone you have forgotten.
Or Maybe it was just Willie Revillame on his usual television antics that made you crazier besides watching the sweet yet not so innocent sing and dance Japanese group called AKB48 or seeing the new commercial of Iphone5 after buying the previous version from a commissioned you got from the sales you just delivered while your brother is shouting his lungs out on a picket line along Mendiola, for the pain he just endured after the policeman kicked his pale chest.
Fuck!
You just ate the most delicious food today, after waking up from drinking the night away. If given another chance… You’ll sleep again and wake young gay dating up again. You’ll ride the bus, the train, seldom the taxis because you have your own car or your father has two, or your best friend has three, or sometimes you walk.
Bang! Bang! Bang! There goes another one.
You clinched, then sighed, then continued to walk again.
You watched your favorite band tonight, hanged out with your friends, embraced life as it is, free of all the bullshit that is all around you. Yet we see you as fickle minded, inexperienced, careless and inappropriately carefree. So we say. So we see.
But it’s not all that… and you know it.
You embrace life as it is… as it should be, as you carefully listened to your own heartbeat and learned that there is more than this… this usual time consuming efforts… that life as it is, are not just about living or surviving. It is not just about you, and you realized it is greater than us.
You try to find connections… adventures or misadventures, but the important thing is that you must get out of your room… now.
Unless you want to be fully hypnotized by Ding Dong Dantes, Piolo Pascual, KC and Marian as you recall their dance in one of the tea drink commercials on TV.
You must get out or else you’ll just smoke the day away or you’ll just try to masturbate your thoughts towards this facebook crush you’ve been longing to add.
Fuck.
You must get out and FEEL the world outside and inside you… you must FALL on the ground and taste the earth, and as you stand up, you can have a glimpse of the sky and wonder FREE what is ahead of
you. You must FEAR the future in order for you to challenge yourself and step out of your own comfort bliss.
You FELL closer to the abyss, that in this thing we call life, we succumb ourselves to nurture not just our being but also the world around us. We care, we see, we inherit, we develop, we grow, we bloom, we rest, we love, we create, we multiply.
Fuck! There goes another day… and day by day we long for the chance to be heard. But what should we say? Who should we listen to?
What the fuck is that dog doing in that window?!!!
Let it out. Let it all out.
Bang! Fffff…uck! There goes another one.
/jjcp. 2011
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Fffff… or “F-Lock” cialis generic is an expression of displeasure, maybe to avoid saying the word “fuck” by simply lingering on the letter F. But “Fffff…” is a concept about the slight hesitation, it is about the sudden pause before you say something taboo or funny. It is about that certain moment where in you reconsider your initial reaction and let it all out in a given time… a critical thinking of an idea before fully commenting into it.
Ffffff… in this case is a series of shout outs from 11 young Filipino artists namely, Zeus Bascon, Charles Buenconsejo, Mica Cabildo,Jemimah Dumawal,FrancesNunag, Epjey Pacheco, Koo Koo Ramos, John Efren Solis, Brendale Tadeo, Marija Vicente and Veejay Villafranca. These young artists are continuously challenged to critically analyze the lives they live in, coming from different backgrounds, ages, disciplines, schools, group of friends and group of thoughts. Each artist has different emotions to nurture and has separate ideologies to relive… different inspirations, different materials to respond to, different techniques and methodologies to explore.
For this exhibition, these 11 young artists were invited to present recent art projects from the simplest forms of statements or keywords about their social or personal environment. These projects would then directly or indirectly invite the audience/readers to be active participants to their works. This was inspired from the social networking site, facebook, as people tend to express random thoughts or emotions using the shout out system, as other users may directly like, dislike and give further comments to, inviting simple and complex dialogues. This exchange hopes to further explore the idea of articulation and dialogue among young artists, peers, audience and critic.
As a guide to the series of shout outs from the artists, one may see on Jemimah Dumawal’s series of Oil on Canvas works are somewhat blurred images of recollections of moments and memories. In response, the viewers are encouraged to strain their eyes to see and try to recall the lost images from the artist’s own subconscious. On the other hand, part of looking beyond what you see is Koo Koo Ramos’ graffiti work, as a piece of paper with a map drawing and the words “koo Koo was here” suggests that the artwork inside the gallery is not the actual work but just a reflection or another rendition of an original graffiti work that can be found in one of our LRT stations in Quezon City, inviting the audiences to recall or to revisit not just her work but also the actual location itself.
On one of the corners of the gallery you can find a small piece of artwork by Marija Vicente. Small yet very sophisticated to explore, as you tend to kneel down to see more and understand more the context of her work, as she invites you to actually look cheap viagra pills in uk for meanings while you are in a submissive position. Beside Marija’s work chinese viagra is one of the mixed media works by Brendale Tadeo, as he explored on this series the idea of people and things and their meanings as he invite you to play around with the image itself by actually repositioning the magnets on his works, thus creating an ever changing composition both on context and form.
A podium assemblage, a book and free dating rpg games a triangular work, signifying an emblem of sort composes the work of Zeus Bascon. On this particular work, the audiences are encouraged to reflect and capture those reflections in the book, a form of planting a seed, as the artists himself would like to gather these contemplations and maybe represent this book as another means to reflect on. From this sort of collaboration between artist and viewer, Epjey Pacheco’s installation encourages the audience to finish what he started and be part of the installation itself. After following the guide prepared by the artist, and once they pinned it on the plastic hangers, this will form a series of collaborations, forming a variation of artist and audience relationship, as the audience becomes the artist and the artist becomes part of the audience.
Then two large scale works almost occupies your attention when you started to explore the whole gallery space, one is Charles Buenconsejo’s Photograph of the 12th Station of the Cross, hoping to make a social experiment of how audiences will react when they are in front of this overwhelming piece, inviting the audience to pay attention or interact to the image—whether through making the sign of the cross, genuflecting, reflecting or praying as if they are inside the church. On the other side of the gallery space is a large video projection of Frances Nunag’s “BB” video work, a series of moving images of a woman floating in water, a sort of invitation to voyeurism also in relation to one of her small scale work, which is a series of photographs about peeking in a moment of a “fulfillment release.”
On the small area of the gallery, which is used as an office space of Blanc Compound, Mica Cabildo transformed this space into her own. For her work in progress project, she explores the armenian dating marriage culture idea soul mate karlek christian dating of rebranding defunct art spaces here in thePhilippinesand this as a starting point, would like the audiences, particularly those who has recollections of what she is trying to remember to convene with her and discuss with her over a cup of coffee she also prepared.
As you walk out of the office space and enter the small lobby area of the compound, you will find yourself in a room of faith, the vanity canadianpharmacy-norxdrugs.com in faith presented by Jepren Solis in his Installation pieces signifying his questions on validation of self and with him in the room are Veejay Villafranca’s series of photographs about religion and ritual beliefs of the people and how their fate correlates to their faith.
With these series of works, this exhibition intends to present new ideas of interaction between artists and their audiences, as a moment of critical thinking and critical response towards a certain idea, presented by these 11 chosen young practitioners of the visual art scene, either sustaining their career as artists or hoping to develop more their ideals and methods with this exhibition.
Fffff… is presented by Blanc Compound Mandaluyong and is curated by J. Pacena II, a multimedia artist and a grantee of 2010 Jenesys Programme for Creators of the Japan Foundation. The exhibition runs till the 14thof October, 2011.
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