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Curated by Birgit Zimmermann
Words by Roy Voragen

Some countries are only deemed newsworthy by our parochial media when a president says something outlandish or when a volcano erupts, these media snippets lack therefore forever a context in which we could embed a bridge to a possible future understanding and empathy or even an engagement and support. GZK has been engaging with one such country for the past couple of decades: the Philippines. The exhibition THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD shows works by five prominent artists from the Philippines who actively engage with pressing political issues: each of these five artists has developed an aesthetics that fits their ethics, a poetry that befits their politics. The five artists are Kiri Dalena, Cian Dayrit, Manny Montelibano, Nikki Luna and Dexter Sy. And they fight both injustice as well as fatalism (that nothing can be done against injustice).


The Man Who Sold The World

Kiri Dalena
Cian Dayrit
Manny Montelibano
Nikki Luna
Dexter Sy