Site of Marks by ERIC ZAMUCO
When about 10 million of your compatriots are strewn around
approximately 200 countries, tropes of displacement and flux get invariably
bandied about so often that the subject plunges to cliché status and
thus get dismissed far too quickly. And yet the push and pull of diaspora
remain arguably compelling, making the case for Zamuco’s fascination with the
volatile state of objects, bodies, and places as metaphor for his own
in-betweeness patently logical. Setting up and packing house from the American
Midwest to the East Coast till finally returning to homebase in the Philippines
two months ago, Zamuco’s fascination with the tenuousness of image and
ramshackle materiality manifests this time around in Site of Marks in it’s
literally shredded traces of the artists’ recent past alluding to tenements
sitting next door to edificies now increasingly becoming iconic of our own
supposedly dragon-on-the-verge economy. These faux visceral space markers hope
to beg questions of memory’s non-fixity and seminal corporeal and
psychogeographic hindsight.
Site of Marks by ERIC ZAMUCO opens on 10 January 2013
simultaneously with Conversation 17 by CORINNE DE SAN JOSE & Mirages by
ALLAN BALISI . All shows run until 9 February 2013 at Silverlens at 2/F YMC
Bldg., II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati
Gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 10am to 7pm and
Saturdays from 1 to 6pm.
www.silverlensgalleries.com / facebook.com/slgalleries
Words by Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez
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