EXHIBITED WORKS
Finale Art Gallery, 4F, SM Megamall,
Ortigas Center
Troubled Sleep
June 26 to July 15, 2008
Alluding to existentialist Jean-Paul Sarte's Troubled Sleep, Lyra Garcellano's paintings are of hollowed-out shapes like ghosts imprinting an outline and betraying a pose of repose and attitude of invariable isolation. The bed, perhaps a metaphor for the physical world, is a tempestuous sea of crests and troughs, heightening the works' sense of disembodiment. When beds were once used to connote comfort and renewal, rebirth and the promise of new beginnings, the solitary figures can only suggest of longings, irrecoverable losses and separation. There is disease, a reflection of disturbing political realities.
