“Seek for Life” is the primary main solo exhibition in Spain dedicated to the Filipino-Canadian artist Stephanie Comilang (born Toronto, 1980). Produced by TBA21 and Sharjah Artwork Basis, it’s benefiting from the collaboration of Fundación Ecolec.

“Seek for Life” is a visible journey and a profound reflection on historical past, identification and interconnection amongst totally different types of life on our planet. In her work, Comilang rehearses a re-reading of nature, contextualized in colonial exploitation but additionally in rituals, which envision the potential for a brand new starting past criticism, based mostly on situations able to fostering new processes and behaviours that can positively have an effect on the planet and the species residing in it.

Curated by Chus Martínez, the exhibition focuses on migration and the interconnection between colonial and post-colonial powers and the actions of people and different animal species such because the monarch butterfly. This can be a large-format audiovisual set up by which two dealing with screens present the maritime routes utilized by Spain after the colonisation of the Philippines. The 2 projections create a movie that exhibits the scope of right this moment’s cargo motion in addition to the position performed by Filipino mariners. Within the artist’s personal phrases: “This venture features a multitude of intertwined tales, timelines, and characters, each human and non-human, which narrate totally different migratory experiences and the connections inherent to them.”

Alongside the movie, plenty of textile creations fabricated from pineapple fibre fill the gallery with pictures of the pure world, such because the monarch butterfly, flowers from potato and low vegetation, vanilla, and different species imported by the Spaniards. The embroideries recall these on Manila shawls and thus confer with the Spanish colonial previous, whereas the pineapple fibre utilized by the artist is a conventional Filipino textile employed for native material manufacturing after this fruit was launched to the archipelago by the Spaniards.

at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid
till Could 26, 2024