Agnes Arellano

장소: San Juan

타고난: 1949

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Agnes Arellano is a Philippine sculptor born in San Juan, Rizal, Philippines on November 21, 1949. She is known for her surrealistic sculptural groupings. A family tragedy in 1981 determined the course of her career and the major themes in her art. Her parents, her sister Citas and a housemaid were killed in a fire that razed the Arellanos’ ancestral home in San Juan, Metro Manila. Arellano commemorated the tragic death of her parents and sister 7 years later with a multimedia event called Fire and Death—A Labyrinth of Ritual Art. She created a unique installation consisting of a labyrinth of thematic shrines in the Arellano garden, combining sculptures, poetry, photographs, sound sculptures, plants, and family memorabilia. This demonstrated the deep sense of the precarious balance between death and life that she had become conscious of after the tragedy. This theme would find its way into many of her other works as well.