‘In-Habit: Project Another Country’, commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, is a project by Filipino-born, Brisbane-based artists, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan. Considering the idea of ‘place’, the Aquilizans present a participatory exhibition that addresses themes of journey and diaspora; settlement and resettlement; home and land; plight and displacement.
Using the process of collecting and collaborating to express ideas of migration, family and memory, the husband and wife team construct small houses using recycled cardboard boxes and found materials. The houses contribute to a growing community of dwellings installed on scaffolding within the gallery, resembling a sprawling construction site continuously evolving and always in transition. At the conclusion of the exhibition, this collaborative cardboard ‘city’ will embody a multitude of real and imagined personal and communal stories.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
31 January to 16 March, 2014
New South Wales
In-Habit: Project Another Country (installation view, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney), 2012, used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection plus 5 LCD screen installation
Photography: Jacob Ring
Courtesy the artists and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
