This vibrant embroidered wall hanging features a whimsical world map filled with colorful symbols and illustrations. The composition is dynamic, with various shapes, patterns, and detailed drawings covering the entire surface. The subject matter depicts a playful, imaginative interpretation of the globe, incorporating fanciful elements such as mythical creatures, flora, and cultural motifs. The intricate stitching and handcrafted technique showcase the artist's skilled craftsmanship and folk art sensibilities. This work likely reflects the maker's unique perspective on the world, blending imaginative storytelling with a global narrative. ...
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. ...
