THE SHELF LIFE OF BEING
Renz Baluyot
Installation view
Renz Baluyot’s installation work for The Shelf Life of Being gathered materials and objects found inside his studio and reminiscent of the artist’s past exhibitions. As an artist whose practice is hinged on the transformation brought by time to objects and sites, the artist’s manipulation of these materials inside his studio produce a similar and parallel narrative.
Renz Baluyot (b. 1989, Saudi Arabia) graduated from the University of the Philippines in Diliman with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, major in Painting. Through visual arts, he explores socio-political narratives that center on urban decay; studies on how much of the disintegration (physical or otherwise) in urban cities are actual effects of imposed oppressive political and economic power. In portraying these issues, Baluyot examines the people’s reception to these subtle but punitive atrocities.
