In the intimately scaled Life in Pieces, rising young painter, Eleanor Giron presents visual experiences from a recent residency in New Zealand and her daily life in Manila. Working across both innocence and maturity she creates voyeuristic portraits of sexuality and empowerment that act as a visual diary to her own self awakening.
Giron’s subjects are strangers, friends and family she has met at random and purposefully encountered across her life and travels. Requesting to photograph them, the exchange between artist and subject contributes to a personal and intellectual growth around understanding the body and the need to challenge taboos around nudity, beauty and violence. By confronting the subject of youthful desire and its associative social shames, Giron creates a psychological friction between image and audience that provoke our own secret fears and fantasies through a confident and expressive form of painterly realism. Also appearing at times as the subject of her work, she shares the curiosities of a young woman exploring the world, its uncertainties and pleasures.
Lost in the Crowd: Contemporary Figuration + Life in Pieces: Eleanor Giron will run until September 14 2013 at Manila Contemporary located at Whitespace, 2314 Don Chino Roces Ave. Extension, Brgy. Magallanes, Makati City.
For details, please contact 576-5024, email [email protected] or check out www.manilacontemporary.com.
Cover: Joey Mead-King
