Marigold Santos | the pace and rhythm of time, floating / ang tulin at kumpas ng oras, lumulutang

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Marigold Santos, "shroud envisioning (side stance in violet) (detail)," 2022

acrylic and gesso on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

Opening Reception: 25 February 2023 | 7-9 PM

In a new body of work utilizing painting, audio soundscape, narrative text, and a large-scale drawing, Marigold Santos reconsiders the Filipino Tinikling folkdance as an act of embodied resilience and decolonization. Tinikling involves four participants; two pacemakers holding parallel, clapping bamboo poles, and two dancers who step together, in and out of the moving poles. With its roots in the Philippine’s Spanish colonial period, Tinikling dancing is an act of Filipino self-determination.

The paintings of the Tinikling dance depict re-imagined and reconfigured Asuang (aswang) shape-shifters from Filipino folklore as the four dancers in an otherworldly setting. Featured in Santos’ previous artwork, the Asuang speak of transformation, actualization, and a plurality of identities in the diasporic experience.