The first solo exhibition of Maverick Abac reveals an artistic process that accumulates memory through material and pictorial depth. It takes its title from broadcast personality Lourd de Veyra’s collection of essays that largely reflect on the absurdities of everyday life, likewise illustrative of the mundanity of experience depicted in this new suite of oil-on-wood works.
Abac likens his method to ‘tagpi-tagpi’ (patchwork), where he (dis)assembles images drawn from moments during his artist residency in New York last year: planning, administrative processing, fundraising, the residency itself, and the eventual return home. Sourced from photographs taken with his mobile phone, these scenes travel from memory to screen to physical work through the interplay of digital collaging, woodcutting, and oil painting.
Text excerpt: Chesca Santiago
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