IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT FOREVER

WAWI NAVARROZA & COSTANTINO ZICARELLI

23 June – 17 July 2010

Curated by SIDDHARTA PEREZ

IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT FOREVER is about the ongoing discourse on the banal universe of static things, of how immortality itself, when turned into the subject of art, becomes framed as something banal. Departing from a generation of exhibitions fascinated with the quick and the dead, IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT FOREVER grapples with the ongoing struggle against this certain cosmological indifference.

In this two-man exhibition, Wawi Navarroza and Costantino Zicarelli take this on by challenging the traditional concept of “still life” by actualizing “a still life” by precisely muting their subjects. As Wawi conceals inanimate present objects in the principle that “invisibility is a form of mortality”, she likewise brings to life an inventory of lost images. Costantino, on the other hand, rekindles the blurred and antonymous relationship between the still and the moving, the actual and its illusion by portraying subjects from the former’s region. In doing so, they are delivered from the object that forms their prison.

In this exhibition, Costantino and Wawi kill by removing their subjects from their particular purpose in the world but, through the act of selecting them as subjects to this series, keeps them alive.

Wawi Navarroza graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography from De La Salle University, Manila and also attended special courses at the International Center of Photography, New York.  Her work has shifted from the personal poetry and mythologies of her earlier practice to more self-reflective pursuits on the problems and possibilities of contemporary photography.

Costantino Zicarelli graduated from University of Santo Thomas College of Fine Arts and Design with six solo exhibitions under his belt at the ripe age of 25. His painterly works crosses over to drawing and installation, tying up contemporary references of the ominous with his personal history of an Italian brought up in Kuwait and the Philippines.

IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT FOREVER runs from 23 June until 17 July 2010 at:

VALENTINE WILLIE FINE ART

1st Floor, 17 Jalan Telawi 3
Bangsar Baru
59100 Kuala Lumpur.

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Saturday 12- 6pm

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