Stranger than Fiction examines what is out of place, through the eyes of a vastly talented group of artists led by Carlo Gernale, Mervin Pimentel, Isidro Santos, and Frederick Sausa. They define being out of place as appearing in a temporal context in which the subject is viewed as peculiar, incomprehensible, or impossible. Thus, from the popular quote, “Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction,” emerges the meeting of minds that produced the works currently on view at Gallery 2 of West Gallery.
Joining them are Nemo Aguila, Gretel Balajadia, Rolf Campos, Vladimir Grutas, Jacob Lindo, Dave Lock, and Tristram Miravelles. Collectively, they aim to show contrasting dimensions or timelines, as their works deal with the aesthetics of objects, ironies, metaphors, and the didactic nature that leads to displacement. Likewise, they draw from the principle of identifying images as the objective in making mental pictures based on available photographs, and eventually pooling both seemingly connected and random subjects, ranging from people, cultures, science fiction to metaphysical beliefs, into one consolidated picture.
By relying on anachronisms, each artist hopes to offer a “fresh” angle on established images, through unique relics, surplus, or leftovers that imply new meanings and representations on large-scale canvases.
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