You Are Here

Pam Yan Santos

You Are Here: a declaration of existence, an invitation to be present. Usually used on maps to locate one’s self has turned into a symbol for a shared territory. Especially in a time when the world is fraught with anxiety and danger that encroaches into personal spaces, one is called to pause and to signify their existence. To do so is to find one’s place in common ground.

Pam Yan Santos situates herself in the midst of it and reveals its vulnerability as a mother, a woman and as a human being. The imagery of eggs and grass become recognizable upon entering, a familiar element in her previous works. Life is represented by the egg in its potential and its fragility. More than a thousand “lives” interconnected into one space, one earth, despite the differences and distance. To form a globe with the eggs is intentionally meant to feel precarious, yet it balances its weight on each other as it keeps the form in place.

Text excerpt: Iris Ferrer

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