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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sherman | 100
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 5pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  7
• Lot Description:
  Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan
  (Filipino, born 1965; born 1962)
  Ikea on Ikea: House Work, 2013
  Ikea cardboard, Ikea shelf and metal paint
  72.0 x 42.0 x 32.0cm (28 3/8 x 16 9/16 x 12 5/8in). (artwork); 86.0 x 52.0 x 44.5cm (33 7/8 x 20 1/2 x 17 1/2in). (display box)
• Provenance:
  The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney, a gift from the artists
• Notes:
  Gene Sherman's preface to the 2012 Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation publication, Alfredo Juan Aquilizan and Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan In-Habit: Project Another Country, provides a fascinating overview of SCAF's engagement with the artist-duo over almost a decade. For this particular project, Dr Sherman notes, 'Alfredo and Isabel, like many of today's significant artists, are serious creative researchers. They started work on what was to become the SCAF project in 2008. Currently based in Brisbane with their fabulous family of five children, they returned to their homeland in order to explore the idea of working with, and bearing witness artistically to, the millions of urban poor. With ninety-four million people, over 7000 thousand islands, a mixed-bag colonial history, power and wealth and in the hands of a fraction of the population and seven million people living under official poverty lines, their research found resonance wherever they looked. The home of the 'make-do', 'the lean-to', the 'get-by-as-you-can', opened up to them, unfolding and revealing hitherto only partly revealed secrets. Social injustices are oftentimes uncovered and revealed via government agencies, judicial inquiries and documentary films and brought to public notice through a host of didactic educational and formal strategies. Art relies on poetry, on the imaginative realm, and the visual arts need, I believe, visual impact and compelling aesthetic focus. When we stand before or within the Aquilizan's towering slum dwellings, recycled cardboard boxes precariously constructed on, across and around industrial scaffolding by people we know or imagining, we are faced with a highly poeticised visualisation of imagined personal stories. When, in the video work, we listen to and watch the global/local rap chanting of marginalised Badjao children whose parents are no longer able to roam the seas as fisher folk at large, we know that despite intense deprivation, the human spirit somehow strives to live on.'
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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