SEW TO SPEAK

Waling Waling Gorospe
Finale Art File, LaO Center, Makati City
December 14, 2007 to January 6, 2008

Sew to Speak

Opening at Finale Art File on Dec. 14 is Waling Gorospe's "Sew to Speak." A homage to the humble implements of a dressmaker-safety pin, thimble, buttons, spools of threads and needles-the exhibit conveys the simplicity, honesty and loveliness of objects that work necessites: tools of creation. Against a field of stark color which, in some instances, haloes the objects as if sacred and inviolable, they are pushed, quite squarely, into viewer's attention-casting slivers of elongated and meaningful shadows. The works embody what the German poet Rilke refers to as "Thingness," asserting the clarity and urgency of world our eyes sew into visibility.