Imprints, essay of the past through boxed images

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Diokno Pasilan's Imprints is at the Ballarat Art Gallery til October 13,2024 Credit: SBS Filipino

'Imprints' is Filipino Australian artist Diokno Pasilan's solo exhibit at the Ballarat Art Gallery. Images that serve as a bridge to his childhood and history.


Key Points
  • A special installation is dedicated to photographs from his 'barangay', the place where he spent his childhood.
  • 'Instagram' like installation show various histrorical events.
  • Diokno Pasilan used recycled materials such as photos from old magazines and wood.

Photos from his childhood home (baranggay) were installed in a gantangan, a wooden measuring box used for rice. This material was specifically used to give the viewer the feeling of looking through a tunnel leading to the past.

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The structure is titled 'baranggay one and baranggay two' showing images from the boating community Diokno Pasilan grew up in the Philippines. Credit: SBS Filipino

Pasilan shares, 'There have been many changes in the boating community I grew up in. The sculpture that houses images from my baranggay is structured similarly to a boat to reflect what life was like back then.'


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