'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.
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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