Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan featured in  ‘Project Belonging: From There to Here’ at Ateneo Art Gallery

10 Aug 2024

‘Project Belonging: From There to Here’ is a two-part exhibition curated by Spain-based Filipino curator Kristine Guzmán. The first part of the exhibition, entitled “The Foreign in the Familiar,” features works by Spanish visual artist Enrique Marty, with Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan as guest artists.

‘Project Belonging: From There to Here’ is based on a dual approach of self-representation, considering the self as a product of society, emerging from social and symbolic interaction. The idea of belonging is explored by delving into the contrast of the homelike, or familiar, and unhomely, or uncanny, and how both intermingle and merge. Though Marty and the Aquilizans define this differently in their respective practices, the figure of the family or the community take a central role in both.

“The Foreign in the Familiar” focuses on Enrique Marty’s work, which is centered on the idea of family in which the everyday and the familiar becomes a genre with its own personality. It also touches on the existence and acceptance of conflict as a coexisting element into the domestic scene.

See the Aquilizans’ works in ‘Project Belonging: From There to Here’, on view at Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines. The exhibition runs until 26 October 2024.

Images: Installation view of Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, ‘Project Belonging: From There to Here’, Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines.