Ranelle Dial’s Guesstimates features artworks that depict and examine hand gestures, expressing an approximation of values commonly used in conversation among Filipinos. Without exactly holding or relying from a planned or fixed system of measurement, it is a widely used and accepted form of communication in face-to-face discussion. “Tantsahan” is used to connote this approximation. Through the exhibit, Dial places a premium on the form of communication that recalls and engages the realm of the senses, “illuminating our proper place, not at the center of our world, but as a member of its audience to which we only have the barest hint of the narrative’s script,” writes Erwin Romulo.
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