Lost in a Crowd: Contemporary Figuration

Figuration and the human form is an important subject in visual art. Whether a study in anatomy, story-telling or emotional projection; the body continues to be a physical and metaphorical site for various possibilities. Lost in the Crowd aims to share some of these current styles and approaches in a cross generational exhibition of contemporary artists. Ranging from minimal geometries through to seductive realities, each work presents single or small groups of figures as formal, narrative and intellectual lines of inquiry.

Arturo Luz’s cyclists and performers reduce the body to its essential qualities of line, shape and color. Formally restrained they stand in stark contrast to Don Salubayba’s complex translations of classical paintings from Western Art History or Iggy Rodriguez’s surreal lament for Filipino OFWs. Bembol de la Cruz and Carlo Gabuco’s large scale figures of tattooed male bodies and figures in private spaces stir feelings of desire and anxiety. Whereas Winner Jumalon and Sarah Geneblazo use their own bodies as a conduit for ambiguous narratives of longing and loss. Together they present a multi-faceted exhibition of various intents that aims to interrogate the human figure in art today.