22 Feb - 4 Mar 2025, Art Circle Gallery, 4F Shangri-La Mall
For her second solo, Millet Yraola-Yulo focused on a familiar object from her childhood. Growing up in the coastal town of Mariveles, Bataan, the artist is much aware of the importance of the lighthouse. It is a beacon that signals safety, a place to go to, or go home to. Like her first solo, Yulo borrows small elements of surrealism by distorting the lighthouse, as if viewed through a circular lenses. She continues to work on strong impressionist strokes and texture. And invests on bold fauvist colors.
Additionally, this series is called unlayering, with reference to the technique of painting, where the artist spreads layers of paints, then etches, peels, and erases her way to creating the forms.
With this work, the artist is fidgety-- making sure that she is in no one place, in no one perspective, in no one palette, and in no one layer, all through out the, while keeping her gaze, constantly, towards the beacon of light.
Dayang Yraola
Curator
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