Provenance: Provenance: Finale Art File, Makati City

ABOUT THE WORK

Geraldine Javier belongs to a new generation of Filipino artists who have moved away from the social realist predilections of their forebears in favor of a much more intimate and idiosyncratic approach. Javier's works are charged with tension and provocation, combining modern sophistication with urban sensibilities. Her subjects often include religious iconography and urban middle-class spaces that exhibit decay, dysfunction, and emotional violence. Doing so grounds the unfamiliar in the familiar, inviting the viewer into a state of deep contemplation and analysis. In this triptych, Javier utilizes images of space and texture within a familiar world to convey a literary-esque structure. By starting from a space within the mind, the triptych mirrors the outward movement of the human psyche. Starting from the purely psychological, Javier condenses the abstract into a seemingly lived moment in space and time. This effectively weaves the subjective context of the work into the fabric of the universal condition.