Multi-awarded Filipina artist Nona Garcia is well-known for rendering her photorealistic portraits and the essence of images and objects reaching the viewers’ sense-perceptions. Her explorations on the symbolism of using the x-ray for her works, specifically, is noted to be one of her defining and celebrated artistic trajectories. A Series of Fractures, a wall installation of light boxes made out of x-ray plates, is composed of selected everyday manmade and biological materials that are made intriguing under the x-ray. This was exhibited in her show titled Fractures at the West Gallery in 2010, an exhibit in which she chronicled and examined disorder and disarray that can be, according to writer Cocoy Lumbao, “personal legends of breakage and calamity.” In this particular installation piece, Garcia masterfully reveals a shared essence beneath surface distinctions as the x-ray films blur rigid outlines and capture both light flares and movement. By altering the filter through which unlike objects are perceived, she depicts transformations and reconstructions of new forms, hence giving them new identities—familiar found and destroyed objects altered into abstract forms in various sizes. Nona Garcia earned her BFA (Major in Painting) at the University of the Philippines – Diliman. Some of her awards include the CCP Thirteen Artists Award in 2003 and the Grand Prize at the Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Awards in 2000 in Singapore. Garcia has also held solo shows in the country and participated in numerous exhibitions in China, Italy, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, and Japan.
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Nona Garcia (b. 1978)
A Series of Fractures
2010
x-ray film; fourteen lightboxes
12 1/4” x 10” x 2 3/4” (31 x 25 cm x 7 cm) 12 1/4” x 9” x 2 3/4” (31 cm x 23 cm x 7 cm)
8” x 8” x 2 3/4” (20 cm x 20 cm x 7 cm) 17” x 14 1/8” x 2 3/4” (43 cm x 36 cm x 7 cm)
16” x 12 1/4” x 2 3/4” (5 cm x 31 cm x 7 cm) 12 1/4” x 13 3/4” x 2 3/4” (31 cm x 35 cm x 7 cm)
8” x 6 1/4” x 2 3/4” (20 cm x 6 cm x 7 cm) 16” x 14” x 2 3/4” (41 cm x 36 cm x 7 cm)
8” x 8” x 2 3/4” (20 cm x 20 cm x 7 cm) 10” x 10” x 2 3/4” (25 cm x 25 cm x 7 cm)
10” x 8 1/4” x 2 3/4” (25 cm x 21 cm x 7 cm) 12 1/4” x 11” x 2 3/4” (30 cm x 28 cm x 7 cm)
6” x 6” x 2 3/4” (15 cm x 15 cm x 7 cm) 12 1/4” x 12 1/4” x 2 3/4” (31 cm x 31 cm x 7 cm)
PHP 400,000
Provenance: Provenance: Christie’s: Asian Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, 25 May 2014, Lot 677 Private Collection, Singapore
Exhibited: Exhibited: Nona Garcia: Fractures, West Gallery, July 2010