The topic of climate change as a pressing global issue has been dominating conversations across mediums in the last couple of years, but there are those who have been wrestling with the palpable effects on the environment and manifesting these questions in their work longer and way ahead than many of us. Martha Atienza, a Filipino-Dutch artist lauded for her sound and video art installations worldwide, has been examining the realities of marginalized communities, particularly those that are most vulnerable to the changing conditions of their direct environments, and exploring the pressing questions she is confronted with through her work for a decade now. Her project titled Gilubong Akong Pusod Sa Dagat (My Navel is Buried In The Sea) in 2010 brought her back home to the island where her family is from (Madridejos on Bantayan Island in Cebu, Philippines) to examine and portray the daily life of seafarers as a way of understanding her own father who was a seafarer himself. The project also gave rise to a larger question that has also galvanized her to leverage her medium as a platform for discourse and collaboration towards social change and community development.
Her most recent solo exhibition at SILVERLENS, Equation of State, was born out of the artist’s reflections and observations from that maiden project in Bantayan Island nearly a decade ago.
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