PAMELA YAN-SANTOS – “Like” at Blanc Compound Mandaluyong
Visual art as educational intervention is the task confronted by Yan-Santos early on as a way to facilitate her son’s cognitive development. Thus, it would seem that the gathering of “Like” greets the viewer as an overtly didactic exercise, but proceeds to unravel as views of how the process of learning advances, and becomes layered and transferred across time. These are works that lead us into ways of remembering.
Remembering is seen as signs and recalls through the operations of liking and likening. Yan-Santos picks through memories of her childhood through photos, books and school materials and unites them with images of her present life with her family.
Serigraphy and collage are the processes that effect a direct transfer and echoing of facsimiles. Painting emulsifies these layers, but does not cloud the essentially graphic quality of the whole. Clear parallels are drawn by these methods, and we are just drawn into the artist’s codified empathies.
Notes by Karen Ocampo Flores
Visual art as educational intervention is the task confronted by Yan-Santos early on as a way to facilitate her son’s cognitive development. Thus, it would seem that the gathering of “Like” greets the viewer as an overtly didactic exercise, but proceeds to unravel as views of how the process of learning advances, and becomes layered and transferred across time. These are works that lead us into ways of remembering.
Remembering is seen as signs and recalls through the operations of liking and likening. Yan-Santos picks through memories of her childhood through photos, books and school materials and unites them with images of her present life with her family.
Serigraphy and collage are the processes that effect a direct transfer and echoing of facsimiles. Painting emulsifies these layers, but does not cloud the essentially graphic quality of the whole. Clear parallels are drawn by these methods, and we are just drawn into the artist’s codified empathies.
Notes by Karen Ocampo Flores
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