Dream Sequence

Modeka Art is proud to present “Dream Sequence”, a group exhibition featuring Jed Gregorio, Miguel Lorenzo Uy, Celine Lee, and Pam Quinto.

The group exhibition “Dream Sequence” presents new work from five artists with diverse practices. The participating artists respond to the storytelling technique of the dream sequence as a point of departure for modes of artistic inquiries that deal with themes of the paradoxes of tactility and conceptuality, belief systems and post-Internet intimacy, and the fragmentary phenomenology of perception and memory.

Wipo’s “Eye Level” is a project that began as part of an exhibition-by-mail, in which viewers are asked to reconfigure and recapture photographs of shadow and light — a process of progression of imagining semblance and creating resemblance by capturing the original subject, to create a new one. In its present iteration, this progression continues in different forms, including three-dimensional object, folded print on paper, painting, and digital projection.

Celine Lee’s “Earth to Me, Me to Earth (2021)” is an iteration of the artist’s disinfection series, started during the pandemic onslaught. Using a combination of household bleach and chlorine granules, the artist erases the dye from abaca paper, revealing parts of its natural color, subsequently producing an image. Rendered using 3D software, the image is a montage of topographies of countries on Earth the artist has visited, referencing a dream about the inevitability of one’s passing, of never being able to experience all that encompass the universe.

Pam Quinto’s “Feels like a glitch or déjà vu” is an attempt to capture the errant shifts one experiences in a dream, where time and space are nonlinear, allowing multiple permutations. Some of the images are moments and places where the artist has experienced déjà vu, and others are reenvisioned dreams. Behind each lenticular photograph are anecdotes of dreams that the artist has managed to remember and write down, like postcards from a dream self.

Miguel Lorenzo Uy’s “Abstraction (24H)” are paintings of photographs of the sky, collected from the Internet, each an hour of the day according to the image metadata. A portion of the photo is cropped (raster), then painted in its lowest resolution, emphasizing how each color of the moment is transmuted and compressed into digital data, and in a manner as if they were abstract paintings.

Jed Gregorio’s “Babylon Suite” is a continuation of the anthological project “Frat”, which the artist has previously described as a “phantom catalogue of convoluted anxieties.” Deriving dramaturgical motifs and compositional gestures from the performance film “King of Babylon”, this suite of photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and sound problematizes the synthesizing impetus of narrative momentum, and submits an interlude that provokes suspicion and regenerative imaginings.

Written by Jed Gregorio 

Dream Sequence is on view from June 26, 2021 – July 19, 2021. 

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