Christina Dy: Unfurling The Folds On Her Sunday’s Best

Christina Dy's practice, spanning a decade or so, seem to evolve around feats of endurance and feats of physical strains.  They evidence a series of calculated performative acts that veer on the ritualistic and the hermetic. The drawings serve as a record keeping of the hours and days spent, it bears being the sole witness to a back breaking effort in completing them.  Here a surface of charcoal transforming by foot space to a massive terrain of hair, to a whirlpool of clouds, to a carpet of rippling ocean waves, blanketing an eremite’s cubic island.   

It’s a physicality buttressed on magnanimity, pitting scale with the limits of materiality and human frailty. Paper and flesh, pulp and bones, contained or contorted, folded or unfurled, analogies contrasted with the wielder and her material, with object and subject converging into form. A series of these actions fan out as shaded creases, invoking rocks, butterfly wings, petals, clothing, muscles, ligature, epidermis.  She draws out the exhaustion with her body as form, body as tool, body as machine, body as ground, body as a delineation of topography of interpersonal relationships as it traverses with other bodies, body as a trace of a precise choreography and rigid routine. As paper folds and fans out into valley and mountains, to pleats or creases, body contorts into poses – sitting, standing, lying, kneeling, crouching, a panoply of micro movements that clamber up into a heroics of exertion battling vastness and particularities, limits and endlessness, infinity scaled to mathematical configurations, a plane’s perspective multiplied into tesseracted Eschers.   

Christina Dy unfurls a suite of these drawings that encompass her transition from large-scale format pictures of the seas and skies, to intimate-scaled sketches of nudes, to her more recent exploration of drawing on folded paper that are configured into tangram puzzle pieces. With the myriad scale of her works, they also manifest the different drawing techniques she employs relative to the format and subject of her works – from brooding gray shades of graphite and charcoal of macro views of surfaces, to fine linear renderings of the human anatomy and insect appendages with a mechanical pencil. Archivo 1984 presents for the first time these drawings that show Christina’s kaleidoscopic practice, as an artist and as a performer/dancer, and breaking frontiers between such.

Christina Dy is a recipient of the CCP 13 Artist Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards in 2008 and in 2009.  She had been exhibiting since 2003, and was a participant in the Busan Biennale in 2010, in Paris Photo in 2013, in Beyond Frame: Philippine Photomedia in UTS Gallery in Sydney in 2008.  

Unfurling The Folds On Her Sunday’s Best is her 15th solo exhibit.

Christina Dy : Unfurling The Folds On Her Sunday’s Best

Archivo 1984, 2241 La Fuerza Compound 1, Makati City

14 October - 2 November 2017

AllHome, All Day Supermarket, & Coffee Project bring a new retail experience to Kawit, Cavite!

AllValue’s first foray in retail was through AllHome, a one-stop shop for home builders and owners. Following its rapid expansion and success in Luzon, the group then grew their retail portfolio to include department stores, supermarkets, and food establishments. This September 2017, AllValue brings four of its brands to Kawit, Cavite—namely AllHome, AllDay Supermarket, Coffee Project and Bake My Day—by staging a grand opening event for Kawiteños.

On September 22, The Villar Group opened the doors to four new stores along Centennial Road in Kawit, Cavite. The event started with a big event in the morning where AllHome, All Day Supermarket, Coffee Project, and Bake My Day gave away special prizes to their first 150 customers. The morning was filled with fun games and surprises for everyone who joined the morning program. In the afternoon, the ribbon cutting ceremony with Mr. Manny Villar, Ms. Camille Villar, and Ms. Benjamarie Serrano was held followed by a short program for partners, suppliers, and guests. An outdoor mini-concert with Nina was organized for the residents of Kawit followed with a grand firework display.

Since the first AllHome opened its doors to the public in 2013, it has become the leading home store by being the first and only full line home center for contractors and home owners—offering an extensive collection of construction materials, a wide variety of appliances and furniture, up to a curated collection of decorative items. AllHome is now the proud exclusive distributor of premium foreign brands such as INAX, leader in Japanese sanitary ware, and Iris Ceramica, a premium brand of Italian Tiles. AllHome is also the sole distributor of other tile brands such as Lustro, Rossio, Cicogres, Alaplana, and Platera.

AllDay Supermarket is not just your ordinary supermarket. With bright and thoughtfully-designed interiors, spacious aisles, and well-ventilated stores, AllDay Supermarket is redefining the grocery shopping experience for Filipinos. The produce, meat, and poultry sections are always stocked with certified fresh products. Aside from the always-fresh goods, AllDay also has a wide collection of gourmet deli and cheeses and a whole section dedicated to imported goods from all over the globe. AllDay Supermarket also has more food options through Gastroville where delicacies from all over the country and the world can be sampled and its Paluto section where you can choose fresh ingredients and have them cooked the way you want in true dampa-style fashion. 

Established in 2014, Coffee Project has now blossomed into the most Instagram-able coffee shop in the Philippines. Every location has a unique look and character to it but all locations have these in common—long tables that can comfortably seat big groups, a multitude of sockets for those who prefer to work in cafes, and cozy nooks for those who want to enjoy some quiet time. On top of that, coffee lovers can always look forward to new drinks and items on the Coffee Project menu every season.

The AllValue Group is going full speed ahead as it continues to add more stores to its network and more brands to its portfolio. As of writing, AllHome now has 16 stores in Luzon and Cebu. Meanwhile, the AllDay brand has 5 Supermarkets with 5 more opening by the end of 2017 and almost 80 Convenience Stores nationwide. Coffee Project currently has a network of 17 branches all over Metro Manila, North Luzon, and South Luzon. Within only 6 months since its introduction to the public, Bake My Day has already opened in 3 locations. Given their current expansion rate, the group is looking into opening shops in the Visayas & Mindanao regions.  

Get Your Palate Ready for CEFBEX 2017!

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Come and take part in the “Ultimate Foodventure” as Worldbex Services International – the country’s leading events management company – presents the 9th Cebu Food and Beverages Expo (CEFBEX)! Happening on October 12 to 15 at the SM City Cebu Trade Hall, the four-day expo will open from 10am until 8pm to satisfy your culinary curiosity. Best of all, admission is FREE!

From delectable food finds and scrumptious specialties to the latest innovation in kitchen equipment, this year’s CEFBEX guarantees its biggest showcase yet! Whether you’re looking to spice up your dishes or searching for new tastes and flavors, CEFBEX 2017 will surely impress the most enthusiastic foodie.

More than just your usual F&B expo, setting CEFBEX apart from the rest is its fun line-up of event highlights! Not to be missed is the Cebu Farmers Market, a pavilion which will showcase produce from organic farmers across Cebu. Also, headlining the show is this year’s CEFBEX Culinary Cup Interschool and Home Chef Edition.

For the Interschool edition, the categories which include the black box competition, napkin folding, fruit carving, cooking, etc. all aim to showcase and hone the skills of students. Presented with the support of Fly Ace, Jolly University, MR Metals, and H20, the participating schools include Benedicto College, University of Cebu, University of Cebu Lahug-Mandaue, University of San Carlos, University of Visayas, Cebu Technological University, Cebu Institute of Technology, University of Southern Philippines Foundation, Philippine School of Culinary Arts (PSCA), Cebu Roosevelt Memorial College.