He Measures Himself as
Shadow Measures Sun II
JEM MAGBANUA
January 19 - February 18, 2022
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jem Magbanua (b. 1992) received her BA (Hons) Fine Arts from the LASALLE College of Arts, Singapore (in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London). Her practice is grounded firmly in drawing and explores how places and people shape each other’s conditions through the merging of points between movement and stagnation; naturalness and artificiality; and comfort and displacement. Magbanua completed several artist residencies in Japan (Studio Kura, the Daison Animation Project, and the Itonami International Festival). Apart from exhibiting in the Philippines, her works had been featured in exhibitions in the United States and the Southeast Asia. Magbanua works and lives between Singapore and Manila.
“I wanted to find a better means of translating this moment where we are all left swimming in what feels like a very nebulous expanse of time, where things are frozen, stretched out, and indistinguishable due to the pandemic.”
Selected works from He Measures Himself as Shadow Measures Sun II
Jem Magbanua, Long Hot Heavy Summer, 2021, Digital Painting on Chiffon, 39 x 39 in (99.06 x 99.06 cm), Edition of 5
Jem Magbanua, Metaphysical Cantations, 2021, Digital Painting on Chiffon, 24 x 48 in (60.96 x 121.92 cm), Edition of 5
Jem Magbanua, Missing Light, 2021, Digital Painting on Chiffon, 39 x 39 in (99.06 x 99.06 cm), Edition of 5
Jem Magbanua, Something the Clouds Cast, 2021, Digital Painting on Chiffon, 39 x 39 in (99.06 x 99.06 cm), Edition of 5
Jem Magbanua, Wide as a Landscape, 2021, Digital Painting on Chiffon, 39 x 39 in (99.06 x 99.06 cm), Edition of 5