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An ongoing exhibition at the Ateneo Art Gallery, A World of Islands brings together artistic perspectives and research on the Philippine archipelago, her climate, her people and their movement over seas and oceans. It locates the ‘tropics’ as both a mythological and real place with shared colonial and ecological trauma, and aims to unpick some of the clichés and relocate agency in the ‘tropical’ narrative.

Learn more about the exhibition in this session moderated by curator Ligaya Salazar, with participating visual artists Nice Buenaventura, Ronyel Compra, and Kim Sacay Chin.

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About the Speaker/s

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Ligaya Salazar focuses on contemporary interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of design, art, craft and graphics. Her approach is shaped by an interest in how audiences can be positioned at the heart of curatorial practice, enabling a human-centred take on storytelling. Recent projects have focused on themes of place – through an ecological, diasporic and communal lens, shining a light on lesser known, purposefully ignored and marginalised narratives.

Ligaya Salazar is a curator and researcher born in Manila, lived in Germany and in Great Britain and practices globally.



ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nice Buenaventura’s methods revolve around the offloading of tensions, often between
ethics and aesthetics, through drawing, painting, installation, new media and citizen-ethnography. This offloading extends to her project called Tropikalye, an online
co-learning resource on vernacular culture in tropical and postcolonial Philippines. Varied modes of productivity allow her work to become generative expressions of concern, tracing links between seemingly disparate issues using the logics of the archipelago.

Nice Buenaventura is a visual artist from Manila.

Kim Sacay Chin’s work uses storytelling in practices that ground people with their environment and more-than-human kin. She navigates arts, learning and social spaces to inspire agency, connectivity, and belonging through co-creating textile work, printmaking, and public-facing events.

Kim Sacay Chin is an artist, textile designer and community facilitator from London; born to a mother from Ormoc, Leyte and a father with Guangdong heritage from Kingston, Jamaica.

Ronyel Compra integrates techniques used in local crafts production and trades into his practice as reflections of memories, history, and experiences of place and home. His artistic practice spans sculpture, installation, video, painting and pseudo-archeological methods, and remains rooted in the life and culture of his hometown of Bogo, Cebu.

Ronyel Compra is a visual artist from Bogo.