Ilza Burchett – The gentle murmur of the Riverscapes IN FLUX
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After viewing the thought-provoking exhibition Riverscapes IN FLUX, one is reminded of a wisdom attributed to Voltaire: “It is said that the present is pregnant with the future”.
The seventeen multimedia installations by artists from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines — each in their own way — are telling us stories about their homeland and its rivers as they witness and experience them today:
Stories which are records of the shift of masses of natural matter, waters, dirt, forests, debris, living and dead humanity — the floating objects of a sacrifice in the creation of a new reality.
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Christina “Goldie” Poblador, Philippines
“The fragrance of the Marikina River”