A LANDSCAPE OF CONFLICT
The exhibit is an inventory of images that tell stories of corruption, territorial disputes, environmental plunder, deprivation of basic rights and their consequences
An ongoing exhibition on the landscape by artist Mark Sanchez, entitled “On Conflicts and Terrains,” is on display at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (second-floor Hallway Gallery). The exhibit, which opened last 8 June, is on view until 18 August.
The landscape as a descriptive scene is beholden to the atmospheric, picturesque and the eternal, or perhaps the anachronistic. The landscape, as both a situation and context, is of jurisdiction, labor, property and sovereignty. It is traced from disputed political demarcations, drawn out from razed rice fields, carved from the mountains then dumped on innocent lives.
The exhibit is an inventory of images that tell stories of corruption, territorial disputes, environmental plunder, deprivation of basic rights and their consequences. The constructed landscape is an index of a particular social space as manufactured by feudalism, bureaucrat-capitalism and imperialism. It is a building-up of a map that delineates the local node of the global network of power and oppression that is capitalism at its latest stage.
Sanchez finished his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. His recent works deal with the accumulation, inventory, and classification of objects, images and/or information.
It is through these processes that he creates representations of systems upon which identities and values are formed.
Viewing hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday. Hours are extended until 10 p.m. on days with evening performances at the CCP Main Theater. For more information, contact the Visual Arts and Museum Division, Production and Exhibition Department at (632) 832-1125 loc. 1504/1505 and (632) 832-3702, mobile 0917-6033809, email c cp.exhibits@ gmail.com or visit www.culturalcenter. gov.ph.