Cosmetic Order @ Mo-Space Gallery

Mo-Space Gallery features Oscar Floirendo, Claro Ramirez, and Eric Zamuco in Cosmetic Order, a group exhibition of installative works taking jabs at superficiality. The three artists who are all graduates of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and who have several Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Awards and Philippine Art Awards citations between them, regroup after having first shown together in the 90s. This showing, Cosmetic Order hints at a lurking unease, one that is deliberately glossed over or veiled by trumpeting a sense of détente. In referencing this surface tension, Zamuco, Ramirez, and Floirendo take off from various directions—superficial postures of knowing, politics of representation, downplayed as well as hyped hierarchies, and so on.

Coupling photography, video, assemblage, and installation, among a mix of other ways of dealing with materials, these three artists' takes converge to suggest the possibilities of agitation through modes ranging from earnest grasping of core spirituality, countervailing image-making, and assertions of positionality and agency.

 The exhibition runs in Mo-Space's main gallery and project space from October 22-November 20, 2011, gallery hours are from 11 am-8pm daily. Mo-space Gallery is on the third floor of Mo's Design Building on Bonifacio High Street , Taguig. Contact tel. 8562748 loc. 2 or 3; fax 8562345; cell: 09176683951 for details or visit http://mo-space.net/. Cosmetic Order is partially sponsored by The Abba's Orchard Montessori School Philippines.