• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO
G-Space Gallery at the Art District launched its second art exhibition this year showcasing the works of 12 women artists on March 6, in celebration of International Women’s Month.
Titled “Simplified Intricacies,” the show features the works of M. Keith, Ayla August, Bea Dolloso, Cora Soriano, Gigi Villamor, Jane Martinez, Tanya Cordero, Maria Jimenez, Ching Gonzales, Rukmini Yanson, and Pnuema Lorena Lorenzo, with guest artist Patis Tesoro, the Grand Dame of Philippine Fashion.
The world has long labeled the female of the human species as “complicated”, “mysterious”, “enigmatic” – terms that often serve to distance rather than define. Women are characterized as nurturing, emphatic, sensitive, collaborative. They embody qualities of gentleness, feeling, intuition, gracefulness, and humility, intuitiveness, relational, instinctual, and so on, the artist statement said.
Most ideas about women are men’s masculine ideas about them.
Simplified Intricacies seek to dismantle these abstractions.
Making definitions is usually not a woman’s trait. A woman when she is in her feminine makes no definition, she makes no boundaries.
Simplified Intricacies seek to return the narrative and hear it from its source – the women, the artists, the storytellers. Because only when a woman’s feminine energy is blocked that she would not tell, she would not sing, she will forget, it added.*
