Dead Layer - White Walls Gallery

Exhibition

Online

Loft Gallery

November 13, 2020

For these female artists, there is a collective need to bond together and empower other women through their monochromatic works. It takes a woman to do many things infinitely well than to only excel in one. Evident in Dead Layer are four directions where they believe contemporary art should leads us.

Expect a woman to deal with heartbreak by reliving the excruciating details before finally letting go. Versed in pen and ink Katarina Estrada painstakingly dealt with pain as if peeling her lover by the skin. Continuing her series of erotica, Dead Layer for Estrada deals with bygone loves and foregone friendships. What used to be warm and longing significant bodies have become blatantly harsh and cold flesh-like cadavers.

Motherhood continues to preoccupy Annie Concepcion since her first solo exhibition last year. In her works for this show, she believes that the ballpoint pen brings out the best of her lines and in conjunction shows the mortality of being prone to error; this of which, relates to her experience of raising her child in isolation amidst the “new normal”.

The Dead Layer for Jan Sunday parallels the literal configurations surrounding her temporary existence. Mostly concrete and abstract in nature she became fascinated with the achromatic layering of cemented pavements—some cracked and cemented again, others with grime and soot from dirt and negligence

Dead Layer is being on the safe side things, a so-called ‘calming before the storm’. Most especially at the moment where a lot of things are unraveling, Ivy Floresca grapples for solitude as she veers away from emotional toxicity—just to be on her own—to recover her bearings.