Museum MACAN is thrilled to present a major survey exhibition by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, featuring large-scale installations, sculptures, and drawings created over more than 20 years of their collaborative practice, which will be on view from 24 June until 8 October 2023.
Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan are a husband and wife artistic partnership, who have exhibited extensively in major exhibitions and biennales worldwide. They are renowned for their unique perspective that often revolves around spheres of home and family, incorporating found materials into their artworks, and a consideration of how identities and histories are formed through travel and migration.
‘Somewhere, Elsewhere, Nowhere’ includes large-scale, expansive, and interactive artworks that will stimulate visitors’ curiosity. Their work uses a vast variety of humble, everyday materials, including cardboard, flip-flops, toothbrushes, and even blankets. These are items that suggest mundane human activities and are also things that we travel with, which become symbols of human movement as well as displacement. For the artists, these are simple materials that evoke ideas of individual identity, histories, journeys, and migration.
Many of the works relate to the handmade—either created through processes of workshopping or crafted through the hands of artisans. For example, the metal knives found in Belok Kiri Jalan Terus (2017–2018) made by blacksmiths in Yogyakarta and the Philippines; as well as the piña cloth woven from pineapple plant fiber in See/Through (Series 1) (2019–2023). Museum MACAN will also commission a new work by the artists; a life size airplane wing consisting of 92 birdcages put together like a puzzle.
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