Geraldine Javier taps her creative instincts anew in her latest one-woman show, Ha, hu! Hu, hu… On view at West Gallery, SM Megamall, from November 9 to 21, the exhibit features a series of painting that deals with life’s oddities and aberrations.
Javier took an unconventional path toward the visual arts, initially taking up nursing and getting her degree before studying fine arts at the University of the Philippines. She has since begun articulating her thoughts through the visual medium, weaving visual narratives in every piece she has mounted for exhibition. In Ha, ha! Hu, hu… Javier proposes that, “God, nature, and man are conspiring to realize every being’s conflicting desire for uniqueness and conformity.”
“Most of the paintings are bound with faux leather and fur, highlighting the exotic and the perverse,” adds Javier, a CCP Thirteen Artist Award recipient in 2003. She once pointed out “every painting I make has a story.” And she invites the viewer to see and discover what she has in store this time around. And she invites the viewer to see and discover what she has in store this time around. Ha, ha! Hu, hu.. features visually dysfunctional images such as a “Cyclops” kitten, a hairless cat, a calf with two heads, a headless chicken, a dog with the longest hair, a two-faced doll, girls with incredibly long hair, and toothless twins. It is doesn’t only focus on what is seen, but also on what is lurking behind–what led her to choose these images and why. But then again, these images may be totally different to the viewer than what they are to Javier. Personal back stories may vary, but one’s conviction to look or sound different will always be there—eliciting just as many responses in agreement or disagreement.
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