Brisbane marvels at sprawling Filipino art at the Asia Pacific Trienniale 9

Nona Garcia’s glazed digital backlit film runs along the floor-to-ceiling glass wall of the Queensland Art Gallery’s north entrance.

The large-scale installation strikes as gothic and quite resembles an intricate dark lace. Some parts look like a constellation of stars, but a closer look reveals a careful assembly of various animal skulls, bones, corals, and dissected seashells.

Nona Garcia, Hallow 2018 Source: Supplied by C.Macintosh

In this interview, Nona shares with SBS Filipino the arduous process of creating this window-based X-ray art piece and how the X-ray machine gave her ‘earliest memories of looking at things in a different light’.

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