OCTOBER 9 - 30, 2021
terra incognita
DANIEL ALIGAEN, TEO ESGUERRA, LANCE GOMEZ
The mute presence resonating from this strange terrain is filled with the disquiet of time and life lost from the entropy of existence, a startling reminder of the age of the anthropocene, of man’s presence on earth today with unsettling considerations to his environment. Exploring distinctive interpretations of landscape, Aligaen, Esguerra, and Gomez produce nigh prophetic pictures of the world to be - abstract, surreal, sublime, and yet always mesmerizing.
Daniel Aligaen’s pictorial maze is a paradox of comfort and anxiety simultaneously encompassing the consciousness of stasis and flux that we aptly experience today, a garden of earthly delights collapsed under the towers of Babylon, a tantalizing perplexing beauty.
Teo Esguerra’s surreal landscapes are built upon a ground of photographic fact coincidental with fantastical shapes of both architectural and anthropomorphic abstraction that animate essentially the neutral environment of the picture. They provide an extraordinary vision of creative play amongst the austerity of reason.
Lance Gomez presents symbolic vestiges of sovereignty, industry, and power embodied in the things used by man to establish his control around him, all imbued now with the wisdom of time that inspires introspection, imagination, and action. Part speculative fiction, part social realism, the pictures settle with translucent painterly washes that appear to drip according to the subject’s temporal weight along with the scraping of memory negating consequently its subconscious grip.