pass:age was to be my very first public solo exhibition and would have taken place in Heidelberg, Germany from the 25th of April to the 2nd of May 2020. It was to be held in local gallery/event space artes liberales - universitas and was meant to host talks and a workshop as part of the programme. So much love and effort had gone into preparing the exhibition that it was a shame that it had to be postponed indefinitely. We (my team of curators and I) are hoping to find an alternative way of pushing through with the exhibition, but are unsure how to move forward.

concept:

A passage can be one of time, one from point A to point B, or even one from a poem. It lends itself as a site for exploration and constant change, in which the existence of individual elements becomes small and transitory in comparison to the grand scheme of life, which, in itself, is the greatest passage of all.

pass:age, as an exhibition, aims to visualise the great importance of the influences and interactions bound in the cyclical nature of life. Thematic concerns expound on the simultaneity of man and nature, man and self, and man and society. In essence, pass:age attempts to explore the synthesis between humanity and environment.

Among the works to be exhibited, in addition to the three presented here, were installations, sculptures, drawings, three-dimensional paintings, and assemblages.

pass:age (unseen)

On The Lapse of Man was a temporary site-specific land art installation created in the year 2015. Created by embossing human faces on the sand on Bantayan Island, the piece represents the basis of Nature versus Man, where Man, no matter how self-rooted and structurally organised, suffers from incessant imperfections and faces mortality in a scene where the tidal waves of the ocean reign as one of the most beautiful yet destructive elements of Nature.

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