Passages 1-5
Artist
Dorizac, Jessica
Production date
2021
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Object Detail
Title
Passages 1-5
Production date
2021
Medium
handcut paper, board, thread, and steel
Measurements
book: 22.3 x 22.9 x 2.9 cm (closed), 22.3 x 46 x 2 cm (open); shelves: 40 x 250 x 18 cm
Object type
Interpretive text
Jessica Dorizac is a Brisbane-born, early career visual artist with dual Filipino and European heritage. Dorizac’s work looks to shape, form and colour, with a recent focus on responding to rural and urban architecture in the Philippines.
In this work Dorizac binds geometric shapes cut from multi-coloured pages in a series of five leather bound books. The work is presented on coloured, steel shelves that continue the artist’s interrogation of abstract form via the semi circle, triangle and rectangles incorporated in their design.
Drawing on themes of diasporic longing and belonging, Passages 1-5 is a visual compilation of memories from life during the COVID19 pandemic, where as an Australian-Filipino the artist juggled her two cultural identities in rural Laguna, Philippines. Dorizac’s cutout pages together become colourful collaged compilations- a pictorial diary of life in Laguna, representing the built environments that surrounded the artist during this period.
Of this work the artist writes “As fingers pinch in anticipation of the next page, one meditates on the movement through place and time. Passages lap between external formulations of colour, shape, and form witnessed by Dorizac in her travel within and outside of the Philippines. Passing through the sleepy state of rural Laguna, Philippines, shapes and forms emerge from houses and structures; from wrought-iron gates to wall trimmings and breezeblocks. The work operates as a haptic reaction to diasporic longing. Each shape is a reminder of fencing, distance, demarcations of territory. At once, shapes blur together through constant flux before immuring into disparate feelings of exile. This movement echoes the artist’s experience of duality in being both Australian and Filipino-born. She is simultaneously at home yet outside of it. Perhaps Passages is a reckoning with the incommensurate of having fleeting (in)tangible holds to familiarity. With it comes an intuitive impulse to gather, to collect, to organise; to make with fragments a whole.” Jessica Dorizac 2022
Artspace Mackay 2022
In this work Dorizac binds geometric shapes cut from multi-coloured pages in a series of five leather bound books. The work is presented on coloured, steel shelves that continue the artist’s interrogation of abstract form via the semi circle, triangle and rectangles incorporated in their design.
Drawing on themes of diasporic longing and belonging, Passages 1-5 is a visual compilation of memories from life during the COVID19 pandemic, where as an Australian-Filipino the artist juggled her two cultural identities in rural Laguna, Philippines. Dorizac’s cutout pages together become colourful collaged compilations- a pictorial diary of life in Laguna, representing the built environments that surrounded the artist during this period.
Of this work the artist writes “As fingers pinch in anticipation of the next page, one meditates on the movement through place and time. Passages lap between external formulations of colour, shape, and form witnessed by Dorizac in her travel within and outside of the Philippines. Passing through the sleepy state of rural Laguna, Philippines, shapes and forms emerge from houses and structures; from wrought-iron gates to wall trimmings and breezeblocks. The work operates as a haptic reaction to diasporic longing. Each shape is a reminder of fencing, distance, demarcations of territory. At once, shapes blur together through constant flux before immuring into disparate feelings of exile. This movement echoes the artist’s experience of duality in being both Australian and Filipino-born. She is simultaneously at home yet outside of it. Perhaps Passages is a reckoning with the incommensurate of having fleeting (in)tangible holds to familiarity. With it comes an intuitive impulse to gather, to collect, to organise; to make with fragments a whole.” Jessica Dorizac 2022
Artspace Mackay 2022
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection. Winner, 2022 Libris Awards Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal National Artists’ Book Award.
Accession number
2022.2
