Ryan Villamael's 'Return, My Gracious Hour' | Exhibition Video

Motivated by Jose Rizal’s poem ‘Memories of My Town’, ‘Return, My Gracious Hour’ by Ryan Villamael surveils, appropriates, and reconstitutes American-occupation archival materials, presenting them into stupendous flora: the paper cutouts of which Villamael is the foremost practitioner.
Redolent with the plenitude of earth and the radiant, scorching heat of the tropics, the exhibition emplaces nature not as a background but as a marker, a locality, an identifying feature that structures terrains of collective identity and, by extension, shared beliefs in nationhood.
‘Return, My Gracious Hour’ by Ryan Villamael runs through 3 February 2024.
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Bravo, Ryan Villamael!