Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan – In-Habit: Project Another Country

22 June – 25 August 2012

This exhibition intertwined two stories of displacement and resilience of the Badjao, or ‘sea gypsies’, in the Philippines. The first referred to the Badjao’s precarious stilt settlements that evolve and expand in response to the vagaries and vicissitudes of life on the edge. In the SCAF gallery space, a cacophony of mismatched removal boxes became an improvised shanty town, supported by steel scaffolding that stretches from floor to ceiling. (Extract from Felicity Fenner’s catalogue essay, ‘Tallstoria’).

The Nelson Meers Foundation was delighted to be supporting the Culture+Ideas series at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF).