Nona Garcia’s latest series of paintings entitled Points of Departure looks into empty spaces, echoing ideas of impermanence, displacement and the transitory. Based on fellow artist Ringo Bunoan’s photographs of empty apartments for rent in Cubao, the works also investigate the idea of memory, capturing things left behind in spaces, which have already been abandoned and deserted.
The series is a fitting collaboration between two artists whose works have consistently explored notions of absence and negation through acts of recollection and remembrance. They render their subjects invisible, mute in order to heighten the need to remember. For Garcia and Bunoan, emptiness is a point of departure leading viewers to another space. Their works seem to be always on the threshold, occupying transient positions and other liminal terrains.
Both artist graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and have shown their works together in numerous exhibitions in galleries and art venues in Manila. In 2003 they both received the Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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