Pio Abad
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In his artistic practice, Pio Abad considers the social and political significance of objects usually consigned to the sidelines of history. Abad uses different media such as textile, drawing, installation, and photography; employing strategies of appropriation to extract alternative readings and repressed historical events. Abad’s work weaves together threads of complicity between events, ideologies, and people. His work glides seamlessly between these histories, enacting quasi-fictional combinations with their leftovers. By juxtaposing disparate items within a cohesive visual framework, Abad encourages viewers to question the relationships between personal and collective histories, the mundane and the monumental, and the visible and the hidden.
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In his artistic practice, Pio Abad considers the social and political significance of objects usually consigned to the sidelines of history. Abad uses different media such as textile, drawing, installation, and photography; employing strategies of appropriation to extract alternative readings and repressed historical events. Abad’s work weaves together threads of complicity between events, ideologies, and people. His work glides seamlessly between these histories, enacting quasi-fictional combinations with their leftovers. By juxtaposing disparate items within a cohesive visual framework, Abad encourages viewers to question the relationships between personal and collective histories, the mundane and the monumental, and the visible and the hidden.