Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin collaborates as an artistic asset in the creation of narrative based projects. Utilizing the methodology of community organizing and storytelling, Aletheia is currently researching collective practices that nurture modes of collaboration. Growing up as a third culture kid, born in Canada, and raised in the US and Korea, informs her interest in participatory art practices touching on cross-cultural, transnational, and inter-cultural identity.
Gemini Kim (South Korea)
Gemini Kim is a research-based artist currently working on the postcolonial study in Korean War refugee village in Incheon, Korea. As a son of a North Korean refugee, he witnessed the rapid change of Incheon city from a small town to an industrial complex. He collects evidence, searches different remain relics for humanity in the area, and simultaneously working on the project of female workers in Korea with the hope to learn from their experience. He is a resident artist at Geyonggi Creation Centre (2018).
Pilar Rocha (Brazil)
Education
2011 Bachelor in Visual Arts by State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Extra Curricular Training
Photography Course at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage (EAV), March 2000 to August 2001.
Course of Drawing and Painting at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage (EAV). March 2002 to March 2003.
Urban Intervention Course - Urban Spaces in the SESC Tijuca, August 2007.
Workshops for Educators Artists by Casa Daros Latinamerica, August-December 2007.
Member of the team of artists educators of CasaDaros Latinamerica, since June 2008.
I International Seminar on Art Education by Casa Daros Latinamerica in December 2008.
Foundational Course at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, March-July 2009.
Fellow selected at School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, from August 2009 to July 2010.
Activities in professional fields
Assistant of the artist Ronald Duarte. December 2006 to February 2007.
Assistant of the artist Simone Michelin. May to July 2007.
Assistant of the art critic and independent curator Gloria Ferreira. June 2008 to July 2010.
Fernanda Lago (Brazil)
Artist graduated in Bachelor of Art Education, Faculty Bennett.Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has been an assistant of plastic artists Matheus Rocha Pitta in 2006 and Daniel Senise in 2008/2009.
In 2005 She attended the courses of artists and art critics conducted by Rod Judhi at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, Sarah Kent at Tate Britain, London and Colin Rhodes at Tate Modern, London.
Lia do Rio in extension Course of UERJ; Franz Manata, 2008; Suzana Queiroga 2009 and Fernando Cochiarelli with Anna Bella Geiger,2009 in the School of Visual Arts in Parque Lage and with Pedro Varela 2010 ,in the Festival of Sesc Quitandinha.
She was in a art resindence in HOM, Kuala Lampur, and in Tengara, Jogjakarta ,Indonesia in 2012 and in Cabana Extemporânea, Funarte Sao Paulo in 2010.
Aldo Falconi (Brazil)
Focused on an archeology of the present, I approach human existence as intrinsically urban and question how far back in history this perspective goes.
Drawing attention to the slow formation of our civilization and how it`s constantly being constructed by its inhabitants, a task which comes with great responsibility, as the city is very fragile in comparison to the natural world it is trying to supplant.
At times using cold and aseptic materials, as in a laboratory and at other times using my own body to express myself, I highlight the experimental character of art, reaffirming the ideas of Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, of the artist/researcher. I stress the contrasts between civilized values and that which is instinctive and natural, and the price we must pay to live in the community, for being civilized means wanting to live together.
Frelan Laurel Gonzaga (Philippines)
Frelan Laurel Gonzaga is a well-rounded Visayan artist based in Negros Occidental, Philippines. His educational background in Marketing (University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos, Bacolod City, 1998-2005) and his musical inclinations made him artistically prolific.
Although he started a bit late in the visual art scene Frelan is anything but non-progressive. On the contrary, he has shown an impressive development within a short period of time; considering that he has remained focused on his music while supporting his family as well.
In 2011 he became a member of the Art Association of Bacolod (AAB) which paved way for his works to be made more visible to the local art audience. After actively joining more than twenty group exhibitions in the Philippines since 2008, he impressively came up with his first solo exhibition entitled-“Tindak”last June, 2013 in Gallery Orange, Bacolod City.
In “Tindak” (to kick, or to pedal) Frelan depicted his deep fascination with the humble workers of his hometown, particularly to pedicab drivers (a pedicab is a three-wheel transportation driven by the act of pedaling) or street vendors who are required to sell whole-day by pedaling through market areas.“For my first one-man exhibition, I tried to merge my impression of them and insights into their own personal tales. My works are not a judgment of them, but it is a retelling of a part of their lives, as what I learned and I observed on the streets of San Carlos City. I felt that a balance had to be created between the reality of a back-breaking existence, and the joy that can still rise up from a life spent in poverty. My use of bright vivid colors is an attempt to create that balance of happiness and sorrow,” states the artist.
If anything, this queer sense of relativity one has with Frelan’s outlook is, perhaps, because of his natural sensitivity to people and their stories of struggle. The air of familiarity might be rooted to the innate good of human nature which now’a’days seems to grow bleaker and bleaker. The artist looks into the different personas of people especially in the low-income economic areas of his region and flatters them with images of hope; an almost heroic and noble aura about them in the paintings.
Frelan is one of the artists in residence lined up in Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines for 2014 and will soon put up a solo exhibition in Manila.
Tristram Miravalles (Philippines)
Paul Tristram Estevanez Miravalles (second of four children) hails from the Visayas Region of the Philippines. Until his formal study in painting (La Consolacion College-Bacolod;Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Painting; 2006-2008), the artist was entirely self-taught.
Locally known as “Uzi,”Tristramis a home-grown talent of Bacolod City-The City of Smiles.However, the artist took on an entirely different route. In return, he offers one of the most tragic, haunting and provocative pieces amongst a rich myriad of Visayan artists; deviating from the often-pleasant imagery associated with their locality.
Tristram dissects his life with the death surrounding him.He mutilates himself through introspection so that he can, bit by bit, offer his stories as raw as can be, one canvas at a time. His tortured, mutated characters are often alone in grey-toned violently-muted textures. The artist’s aesthetic alleviation is sourced from the slopes, curves and descent of his days. Assume, if I may, that it is tragedy and disdain that prods him to paint and recount thoughts into artistic articulation and that it is in the absence of peaceful meanderings whereTristram ultimately sets his brushes afire.
In 2011, he held his first solo exhibition entitled “Mentalshock of Tristram” in Gallery Orange, Bacolod City which was an aftermath of his days behind bars against false accusations. The artist battled through his ten-day calvary as the scars of society were unraveling right before him. This was followed by his recent solo exhibition in Blanc Gallery, Quezon City last July, 2013 entitled “Shallow Grave” which discoursed the constant feeling of non-living amidst all existential proof.
Tristram Miravalles was artist-in-residence of Project Space Pilipinas (PSP) in Mandaluyong City, Philippines in 2011 and Southeast Asia Artist Group Exchange Residency Program III (SAGER 3) in Jogjakarta, Indonesia last June, 2013.