The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery banners landscapes from pirated digital copied films of the National Artist for Cinema Ronald Allan Poe, popularly known as Fernando Poe, Jr. or FPJ, titled “And the World Thickens with Texture Instead of History.”
The exhibit flaunts reworked excerpts from pirated FPJ movies to deconstruct notions of cinematic presence and iconic, and explore the paradoxical role of the video-piracy industry as a mode of commemoration and archive.
It includes collated footages of uninhabited landscapes and other vacant sites taken from pirated digital copies of FPJ’s films in which the iconic hero is absent from the picture, shots where FPJ’s character is dodging bullets during exchanges of gunfire are also extracted from all his available movies in the DVD pirate market, and then collated, slowed down, muted, and spliced together into a gradual montage wherein FPJ becomes forever absent or invisible.
And the World Thickens with Texture Instead of History is a new media exhibition of Christian Tablazon, who finished his BA in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines-Diliman and currently working as English teacher at the University of the Philippines Los Baños while working on his first full-length film. The exhibit is a collaboration with Nomina Nuda — a small nonprofit independent platform and exhibition space in Los Baños, Laguna dedicated to emerging artists and alternative art practices.
The exhibit will run until November 30 at NCCA Gallery in 633 General Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila.
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