Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Memories real and surreal. Retrieving and reshaping memories and experiences of home is at the heart of Filipino artist Marina Cruz’ work. As she makes her paintings, Cruz rescues the idea of home, even its dramatis personae from the ideas presented from the notions of wishful thinking. The haunting work eminently succeeds as almost being sculptural because it possesses an aura of presence. The integral figure radiates its own energies, as it exposes an intense communion with the surrounding space.