PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR

Provenance: Provenance: Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo City

ABOUT THE WORK

The worlds that inhabit the works of acclaimed visual artist Pam Yan Santos are rife with care and full of meaning. As an artist, Yan-Santos raison d’être is the creation of new and novel spaces that unearths the underlying truths and realities of society and the world at large. Though her work utilizes collage and figurat ive techniques, the underlying moral dimension of the piece lends t he work strikingly affective characteristic. In this piece entitled Mushroom Building, Yan-Santos addresses the phenomenon of rapid urbanization by comparing the growth of the number of buildings and various infrastructure to the reproductive process of common fungi. Though Yan-Santos does not posit a sort of primitivist stance r egarding the matter, instead she sheds light on how pr ogress, when unfettered and directionless cannot be called progress at all. It is almost uncommon for contemporary artists of her generation to consider printmak ing as a medium. And yet, Pam Santos deliberately selected this medium i n the early stages of her art practice.