Curator Rocky Acofo Cajigan presents the 'Naked City' art exhibition, which explores Baguio, Philippines, as a hub for diverse cultures and peoples, highlighting its colonial influences and indigenous heritage to provide a deeper understanding of the city's complex identity, economy, and politics.
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One exhibit guides us through these narratives, and encourages a deeper understanding of the forces that shape Baguio’s present and future — the Naked City art exhibition. “The slew of different communities speaking different indigenous and non-indigenous languages compose the many barangays that make up the city,” the introduction of the exhibit states. “This map includes a large number of people who have come to the city to study or work.”
The introduction, history, and goal of the art exhibition shown at the wall of the exhibit. Photo by Lyndee Buenagua/RapplerCajigan was also an artist and an indigenous hailing from Bontoc himself. He even joined the first two exhibits as an artist. Artists, regardless of their roots, are skilled craftspeople, though their work is often more meaningful when it draws from personal experience. This is why his lived experiences mattered in curating this exhibit.
Andrea Marie Lucido, a featured artist, saw how the exhibit connected people despite their differences — one of the goals of the event. The sculpture installation entitled ‘Pagbangon’ as the welcoming piece. Photo by Lyndee Buenagua/Rappler “It started as a critique of how women were symbolized in nationalistic paintings,” she recalled in mixed Filipino and English. “Some works related the sexual assault of women to the nation’s struggle. While valid, I wondered if people would empathize with actual women who were assaulted.”
Photographs of Benguet’s Crossroad, Ifugao’s Punnuk, and Bontoc’s Ato on archival bamboo paper. Photo by Lyndee Buenagua/RapplerBaguio and Manila-based artist and photography enthusiast Zamae Pacleb wanted to offer something personal to the table as well, with her artwork entitled “Portraits of Home.”
Her artwork is composed of film and digital photographs, CRT televisions, and three single-channel videos featuring Benguet’s crossroads, Ifugao’s Punnuk, Bontoc’s Ato, Baki, Tokwifi, and her personal musings. “Just keep on shooting because when you stop shooting, you stop sharing those stories of that time, which are the markers of memories, reality, and history,” she emphasized.
For some, like Rai Salvador, an instructor at the University of the Philippines Baguio, who found the significance of the exhibit and even invited his whole class to visit, the exhibition also shows how the city became the center of almost everything: cultural, academic, economic, and labor-concentrated.
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