Landlessness In the Islands

Cian Dayrit

Landlessness In the Islands, 2018Sign in to view price
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Material
oil and objects on canvas
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Visual Elements: The artwork features a vibrant yellow and red color palette, with a complex composition that includes various abstract shapes, symbols, and illustrations. The overall style has a whimsical, collage-like quality. Subject Matter: The piece depicts an illustrated map of the Philippine Islands, with various elements and symbols representing the "Landlessness" of the region, such as military weapons, wildlife, and references to local culture and history. Artistic Style and Technique: The work appears to be a mixed media piece, combining hand-drawn and painted elements with text and other found materials, creating a visually striking and dynamic composition. Context: The artwork seems to comment on the historical and political landscape of the Philippine Islands, with the artist likely using this visual language to convey a message about the region's complex and often marginalized experience. ...

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Cian Dayrit
Artist
Cian Dayrit
B.1989, Filipino

Working in painting, sculpture and installation, Cian Dayrit’s practice explores colonialism and ethnography, history and archaeology. Born to a middle-class family in Manila, Dayrit’s works, as well as his socially-engaged and community-based projects, address struggles and oppression that are normalised as a systematic imbalance within a society that holds a colonial past. His mixed-media, cartographic, or counter-cartographic works, made with textile, embroidery and collage, propose a challenge to a monopolised framing of history and a spatial understanding of the world. His counter-maps depict a world map viewed from upside-down; a trajectory of displacement of the Ayta community; marginalisation of the peasant community of the Philippines, among others. By addressing the deeply imperialist and feudalist legacy of displacement and exploitation, Dayrit proposes an alternative mode of narrative construction, empowered through resistance and protest. Dayrit’s practice is a call for social quality and powerful visualisation of the struggle for land, history, culture and identity. ...

Cian Dayrit: Artworks
Feudal Fields
Landlessness In the Islands
Cian Dayrit
Landlessness In the Islands, 2018
Mapa ng Kapangyarihan at Gahom (Map of Power and Hegemony)
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Mapa ng Kapangyarihan at Gahom (Map of Power and Hegemony), 2018
Tiis Ganda, Kutis Amerika
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Tiis Ganda, Kutis Amerika, 2018
Yuta Nagi Panaad (Promised Land)
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Yuta Nagi Panaad (Promised Land), 2018
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