Nontawat Numbenchapol and Ryan Villamael
UP Vargas Museum
Imagining “home” across registers of domicile, dwelling, and domain, the exhibition “Homecoming/Eventually” presented the work of Thai artist and filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol and Filipino artist Ryan Villamael. Curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, the show brought forth the artists’ thinking on place and belonging as articulated in discourses of mobility and migrancy as well as of settling and stasis.
In Villamael’s site-specific installation Locus Amoenus, 2017–, foliage made from cut-up paper maps of the Philippines grew from the museum’s ceiling; tendrils shot off the building’s pillars