ArtSpeak with Ateneo Art Awards 2023 Shortlisted Artists Cian Dayrit and Vien Valencia

Join the Ateneo Art Gallery for an ArtSpeak with Ateneo Art Awards 2023 Shortlisted Artists Cian Dayrit and Vien Valencia

30 November 2023, Thursday

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Ben Chan ArtSuite, 2F Ateneo Art Gallery

Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | REGISTRATION REQUIRED at https://go.ateneo.net/AAA2023ArtSpeak

Deadline on or before 11:59 PM of 29 November 2023 (Wednesday)

Cian Dayrit’s practice interrogates dominant notions of space and power through the use of tools and materials representative of institutions such as the state, museums, the military, and the church, among others. In his shortlisted exhibition “The Austere Enclave,” he examines the intersections of ecology and policy, focusing particularly on how political-economic ideologies such as neoliberalism disfigure landscapes and affect how the people within them function and live.

Centering his artistry on community-based works, Vien Valencia founded Nomad Projects to address changing landscapes in various local communities. In his exhibition “your age, my age, and the age of the river,” Valencia travels to Tanay, Rizal to work with the Dumagat-Remontado indigenous group in saving the Tinipak River from the Kaliwa Dam project, which threatens to destroy not only the community’s means of livelihood, but also effectively erase the cultural and environmental history of the landscape.

This ArtSpeak program is organized in line with the Ateneo Art Awards 2023 exhibition, on-view until 02 December 2023 at the Fredesvinda Almeda Consunji Gallery, Ambeth R Ocampo Gallery, Elizabeth Gokongwei Gallery, and Alicia P Lorenzo Gallery, 3F Ateneo Art Gallery, Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.