RICO ENTICO: SIGH*

Rico Entico's "Sigh" presents the urban experience: different forms and influences of sound in a developing city, which capture the mundane and the daily life of people living in a post-colonial pandemic-stricken setting. 

The installation shows gripping images of various anti public-private signages juxtaposed with controversial land acquisition areas like the 14-kilometer Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway, the Skyway Stage 3 along Buendia, and even the infamous Paranaque and Pasay City reclamation sites. As such, the signages were strategically placed and left as social expositions to stir minds and incite public reaction. In a country laden with public-private partnership glitches, with an audience mostly desensitized by it all, a phantom sigh dissipates a deep audible breath of provocation to the grim realities of our government’s infrastructure projects. 

Rico Entico is an independent filmmaker, performer, and videographer. His works straddle between narratives and experimental forms of the moving image and offer an absurdist yet poignant vision of some of the undercurrents of society. He is the co-founder and co-curator of Lost Frames and a member of the Walang Kikilos artist collective. Entico’s works have been featured in exhibitions in Manila, Vancouver, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Melbourne.