Encounters of Disbelief

Galleria Duemila | Manila

Galleria Duemila

210 Loring Street, 1300 Pasay City, Metro Manila

Gallery hours: 10 am to 5pm. Tuesdays - Saturdays

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Galleria Duemila is pleased to present Encounters of Disbelief, featuring the works of Jon Cuyson, Lizza May David, and Kat Medina. This group exhibition combines three artists whose works oscillate between painting, sculpture, and installation. What form of experience or affect might the viewer have in encountering such works? The title refers to the encounter in art and the “multiple becoming” referred to by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. In his teaching and writing, Deleuze emphasized what he called "thought compelled by the encounter." The encounter happens when it defines itself not as an internal exercise of reason but as an event that forces it to move. What form of movement and transformation occurs during the encounter?

The exhibition follows the idea of art-making as a series of productive encounters similar to an event, a meeting, or collision between acquaintances or lovers, like two fields of force, transitory but ultimately transformative. Encounters of Disbelief is a deliberate departure from conventional modalities to challenge, to queer, and to question both viewer and maker into a space of uncertainty and contemplation. Whether installed on the walls or the floor, or using technological devices to obscure images, the works featured in the exhibition explore the expanded domain of paintings by investigating color, surface, optics, and processes that explore materiality, space, structure, and objecthood from a queered lens.