DEC13_SUPERDUPERFINAL

Curator’s Notes
by Maria Tanaguchi
I think our current preoccupation is to achieve some sense of
certainty on a global scale, for example in guarantees of the vaccine’s
efficacy. Artists have always had the freedom to be a bit counter
intuitive. I would like to think about the more diminutive meanings
of the keywords kalibutan - inkling: a vague notion, or a slight
impression, that is related to the words cognition and speculation;
and libut, a word contained within the word kalibutan that may
mean “to wander”, as well as “to surround.” These terms point to the
keywords speculation and the universe, and yet allow us to think in
much smaller scales.
`What follows is an image of a painting by my mother, Kitty
Taniguchi. I think telling you this story might serve to enliven the
key terms by illustrating complexity in human scale. This painting
was made in 1989, it’s an oil on canvas. You’re looking at it from
the wrong side up. They recently found it rolled up so it was cleaned
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