Untitled (Inventory)

2013 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)

15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.

Pio Abad

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In his practice, Pio Abad looks into the social and political significance of objects usually consigned to the sidelines of history. Abad uses different media such as textile, drawing, installation, and photography, and employs strategies of appropriation to extract alternative readings and repressed historical events. Abad ties threads of complicity between events, ideologies and people. His artworks glide seamlessly between these histories, enacting quasi-fictional combinations with their leftovers and weaving together threads of complicity between events, ideologies, and people. Abad was artist-in-residence at KADIST San Francisco from April to June 2019, where he conducted research into narratives of exile and displacement from the 1970s and 80s that brought Filipinos to California.

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• appropriation.n.03
• ideology.n.02
• culture.n.01
• political.a.01
• object.n.01