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  • Kiri Dalena (b.1975) is an acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker known internationally for her works that lay bare the social inequalities and injustices.
  • Kiri Dalena is a visual artist, filmmaker and human rights activist who lives and works in the Philippines.
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    Kiri Dalena

    Born 1975, Manila, The Philippines
    Lives and works in Manila

     

    Kiri Dalena's Erased slogans series of photographs, commenced in 2008, are based on archival newspaper images of protests in Manila prior to the declaration of martial law by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. These black and white pictures show picketers carrying placards whose slogans have been removed by the artist, leaving only a blank white surface. The absence of words becomes a chilling symbol of the way in which voices of dissent are silenced and forgotten. Simultaneously, by removing them from archival obscurity and subtracting the context of historical specificity, Dalena transforms them into abstract representations of the act or ritual of protest. As demonstrations and protests re-emerge across Asia as a form of popular political expression (for example, in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and throughout West Asia), Dalena's intervention is both historical and topical.

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    Kiri Dalena

    Kiri Dalena is a visual artist, filmmaker and human rights activist who lives and works in the Philippines. Her work deals with issues of political and social injustice, drawing from events in Philippine history.

    Work

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    Erased Slogans (2008-)

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    Among Dalena's most recognized works is Erased Slogans, a series of photographic prints begun in 2008 that depicts protesters holding placards with their slogans digitally removed. Based on archival images of Manila protests in the 1970s during the Marcos regime, the series alludes to the silencing of voices of dissent as well as ongoing acts of protest in the region and across the globe.[1] According to the artist, "the blank placards offer a silence that is necessary for reflection."[2]

    Southern Tagalog Exposure

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    Co-founded by Kiri Dalena with King Catoy in 2001, Southern Tagalog Exposure is a multimedia collective that focuses on producing and exhibiting digital video docume

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    KIRI DALENA

    Biography

    1975 born in Manila, Philippines
    lives and works in Manila (Philippines)

    1993 University of the Philippines, Los Baños (PH) 

    Exhibitions
    (2000-2017, selection)

    2018
    Manila Biennale: Open City, Intramuros, Manila (PH)

    2017
    JIWA: Jakarta Biennale 2017, Gudang Sarinah Ekosistem, Jakarta (IDN)
    Tiempos Migratorios, Facultad de Artes ASAB, Bogota (COL)
    Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980's to Now, The National Art Center, Mori Art Museum,  Tokyo (JP)
    On Attachments and Unknowns, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, (KH)
    Arrays of Evidence, 1335MABINI, Manila (PH)
    Rosa's Wound, MOCA, Taipei (TW)

    2016
    Time of Others, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
    Busan Biennale 2016: Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitudes, Busan (KR)
    There fryst vatten Another Sky, 1335MABINI, Manila (PH)
    Pyongyang International Film Festival, Pyongyang (KP)
    Present Progressive, Vetro, Quezon City (PH)

    2015
    8th Asia Pacific Triennial of C