Keiye Miranda-Tuazon's Breaking the Silence @ blanc

Keiye Miranda-Tuazon's
"Breaking the Silence" at blanc

July 14 6pm - August 4

BREAKING THE SILENCE

My works are either familiar or unique underwater
images of people and objects that float, weave through
or swim around. It deals on personal space, time,
memory, thoughts and experiences. The images suggest
a sense of movement as the light reflecting on the
water attempts to recapture the original and existing
form. This enables one to trace or transcend the
movement of thought and explore, for instance, the
dimension of solace and solitude. The entire painting
is an illusion of color: the play of light imbuing on
the works implies the fluidity, changing views and
dimensions of water.

The moving/flowing water serves an element of
defamiliarization, producing an intriguing ambiguity
of the real and unreal, thus, setting new terms of
encountering reality. The stark images and figures
create a complex and resonating pattern, like bathing
in a luminous glow of water. Rolled by water's moving
reflection, the depiction of figures that float exists
in the same dream-like level of memory and time, in
which it has a double image signifying the issue of
identity. The shadows, meanwhile, suggest a condition
of change.

The imagery of submergence in water alludes to the
realm of subconscious and the unconscious. It is not
only the rational conscious self that defines one's
identity, but more so, the submerged level of the mind
that doubly and crucially suggests in the articulation
of the self. This can be seen or felt, for instance,
during pre-natal and birth experiences in the fluid of
mother's womb. The bodies move alone like apparitions
in the chiaroscuro of water, as the viewers are
impelled to discover their fluid identities, which is
the sense of being and becoming.

KEIYE MIRANDA-TUAZON
blanc
6PM July 14, 2007 - August 4, 2007