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Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan
Audience members built makeshift airplanes as part of the Aquilizan’s work In Flight (Project: Another Country), 2009 at the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. (Courtesy of the artists and Yavuz Gallery).
Address, 2008 was constructed with 140 boxes containing personal items forming a large cube-shaped room. (Courtesy of the artists, PODO Museum, and Yavuz Gallery).
Left Wing Project (Belok Kiri Jalan Terus), 2017-2018, is part of a body of work created with farmers and blacksmiths from Yogyakarta (Courtesy of the artists and Yavuz Gallery).
For their the exhibition Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter at Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), the Aquilizans invited school and community groups to create their own cardboard dream homes (Courtesy of AGNSW and Mim Stirling)
The Aquilizans worked with locals in the fishing village of Bagasbas Philippines to gather the used flip flops which they used to create this piece Last Flight I, 2009 (Courtesy of Yavuz Gallery).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: PAYAL UTTAM
Payal Uttam is a freelance journalist who has been covering art and design across the globe for more than a decade. Her work has appeared in publications including: CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Artsy and The Art Newspaper among other titles. She divides her time between Hong Kong and Singapore.
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