Finding paradise as a queer Filipino artist living a thousand miles away from home | via nolisoliph
I first met multi-disciplinary artist and photographer Augustine Paredes—in person, though we have been acquainted prior on Instagram—in the summer of 2022. He took a short vacation to the Philippines at that time, having been based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates since 2016.
Here, there are things you can and cannot talk about in the most direct way, so every time I wanted to say something I would say it in a way that still respects the place that I am in. The exhibit, which was well-received particularly by Filipinos in Dubai, is an amalgamation of tenderness, he says. “It aims to retell the journey of a migrant body seeking paradise.”
Creative work has always been my means of getting by, no matter where I was because it is the only thing I know how to do. I have always loved Wong Kar Wai. Seeing “Happy Together” at 16 gave me so much inspiration and a yearning for that way of storytelling. I don’t know how to put it, but I think, there is a language only known and practiced by migrants and the diaspora.
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