Christina Quisumbing Ramilo examines and reimagines objects and their contexts through comprehension of material and site specificity. Her artistic practice involves an interest in and respect for the life and history of objects. With minimal intervention on their surfaces, she arranges them or reconfigures their parts, presenting other perspectives to their forms and functions. Often using unconventional materials (construction discards, architectural fragments, casts, recycled paper), and utilizing objects themselves as material (mirrors, bottles, old frames, clothing), most of which have been collected for years, she constructs the works in parts over long periods of time, never completely finished. Conferred with titles that employ wit and humor, they ultimately express her personal poetries.
Ramilo lives and works in the Philippines as a full-time artist and curator.
Recent special projects: Everywhere, There You Are, Areté (2019), Forest for the Trees, Art Fair Philippines Special Exhibition (2019), Forest for the Trees, Museo Sansó (2019), Mata, Taiwan East Coast Land Festival (2017), artist-in-residence at Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta (2016) TAKSU Kuala Lumpur (2017)
Recent exhibitions: Dead Horse Bay, Silverlens (2019), Flight, Mo Space (2019), Ordo Ab Chao, Silverlens (2018), Verses Reverse, Artinformal (2018), Swell, West Gallery (2018), Muscle Memory, Artinformal (2017) UNTITLED, Artinformal (2016).
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