I was honored to be part of Fotomoto PH 2022: Home, a nationwide photography exhibition that explored the concept of home—as place, memory, and identity. This annual group show brings together a diverse group of Filipino photographers, each interpreting the theme through their unique visual language and cultural lens.
My selected work, Swimming Up For Breathers, Getting Out of My Head, is a photo series that documents the moments when I get up to our rooftop for breathers, as if coming up for air from a deep dive, to at least make sense of my place here, a migrant body caught up in the current of the diaspora.
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Fotomoto PH is an annual photography exhibition that seeks to promote Philippine photography as a contemporary art form and platform for dialogue. Each edition is centered around a unifying theme and features a curated selection of works by photographers across the country and abroad.
A brief description from their website:
The second theme, launched in 2022, expanded from the individual and the self to our immediate surroundings. We had emerged with new perspectives on our homes due to prolonged isolation, working and studying from home, migration, displacement, loss of one’s home or finding a new one. The sense of home, while tied to places, was also interpreted in abstract ways– as a feeling, relationship or ritual.
The Home collection consisted of 342 artworks by 116 artists. The works were exhibited at Parola: UP Fine Arts Gallery, Gallery Indigo at BenCab Museum, Ariniego Gallery at Silliman University, and the Bacolod Art District Galleries: Orange Project, BLK17 Art Space, White Space Gallery, and The Open Space. A selection from Portraits and Home was also exhibited with other works at Qube Gallery in Cebu.
