ONGOING SHOW
Finale Art Gallery, SM Megamall, Bldg. A

Light Suffers If There's No Place To Fall From

July 11 to 31, 2007

During the opening of Poklong Anading's "Light suffers if there is no place to fall from" at the Finale Art Gallery, the audience was confronted with an empty space save for a ribbon of neon light shaped like a mouse trap. While the viewers were crowding around the rather curious object, the artist surreptitiously took a photograph of them, their backs turned to the camera. All anonymous but bound by the same eagerness to make sense of the occurrence, the viewers didn't know days later that they, themselves, would be the subjects of a work in the exhibit they attended: a lifesize photograph that forever captures their gesture of looking inward.

In this wildly inventive and delightfully unnerving attempt at art-making, Anading traps the notion that art is a finished, transportable object-all ready to be admired, or rejected, by its viewer. For him, it generates its power in places where we most unlikely look at, in his case, the opening of his own exhibit. Breaking through its seemingly indistructible boundary, the artist unleashes a tumble of questions about the nature of inspiration, creation, and ultimately, destruction. In so doing, he unravels our expectation and reveals a process that tips our balance as we take our turn to assume the role of the onlooker.

Curated by Roberto Chabet, "Light suffers if there is no place to fall from" is on view at the Finale Art Gallery until July 31, 2007.

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