KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA. Lives between Dumaguete (Philippines) and Madrid (Spain). Individual projects include: Museo Carrillo Gil, in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo Art Space, Ruang Mes56 and Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines),Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Murcia), Spain. He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa En-cendida in Madrid, MUSAC in León (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico) and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).

Currently developing the curatorial platform Moving Image Lab Filipinas (MILF) which experiments on video as an exhibition format with the goal of expanding and decentralizing the contemporary art scene outside of Manila and creating network and collaboration not only in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia as well as with Latin America and Spain.

He is also developing a solo traveling exhibition that will go different museums in Europe and Asia that will be cura-ted by Patrick Flores, director of the Vargas Museum (Philippines) and Menene Gras, director of Visual Arts of Casa Asia (Spain).

Salingpaw: Configuring and Transfiguring the Leaves of the Snakeweed (Euphorbia

hirta)

Performative Sculpture

2.5×1 cms.

2014

Salingpaw, as they call it in Cebuano language, is often used traditionally to cure dengue. It is

found in the roadside in Dumaguete. The driver of the tricycle that I rode had two of them, one

on each temple of his forehead. Apparently, according to him, Salingpaw is also used to cool

down body temperature. They would fall off once the moisture of the leaves subsided. In this

performative sculpture, the leaves are placed in the same manner on Ramon’s forehead.

Exhibition format:

Option 1: object

Option 2: photograph (size and print medium, variable)

Found Geometry: Carving a Square on a Young Coconut

Sculpture

20x16x23 cms.

2014

This sculpture consists of a young coconut with a square hole carved into it. The vendor at

the fruit market in Dumaguete places a drinking straw inside the coconut and sells it as

beverage. Once you finish drinking you give the coconut back to the vendor and he cuts it in

half for you to eat the tender white meat inside. Exhibition format: Option 1: object Option 2: installation/expanded version Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable)  

Configuring a Cube Using almost a Kilo of Calamansi (Citrofortunella microcarpa)

Sculpture

24x24x24 cms.

2014

Exhibition format:

Option 1: object (size, variable)

Option 2: installation/expanded version

Option 3: photograph (size and print medium, variable)

Spatial Relief: Banana Leaves with Bamboo sticks

Sculpture

14x24x34 cms. approx.

2014

The idea of the material came from how in tropical countries, banana leaves are used as

packaging material and bamboo is used to give shape or to seal it. Each sculpture is movable

and can be positioned and configured as the viewer pleases.

Exhibition format:

Option 1: object

Option 2: installation/expanded version

Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable)

Configuring and Reconfiguring Plastic Balloons Performative Sculpture Size, variable 2014

Exhibition format:

Option 1: object/performance

Option 2: installation/expanded version

Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable)

Transfiguration: Matchboxes Used as Mobile Homes for Fighting Spiders

Sculpture

2014

This series is originally made of matchboxes converted into mobile homes for fighting spiders.

I approached two guys who typically sell these boxes and asked them to design 100 pieces.

Exhibition format:

Option 1: object

Option 2: installation/expanded version

Option 3: photograph (print medium, variable)

Expanding Emil's Experiment #1Painting(acrylic and food coloring suspended inside a jar with water+cornstarch mixture)13x6 cms diameter.2015Exhibition format:Option 1: objectOption 2: installation/expanded versionOption 3: photograph (print medium, variable)

Expanding Emil's Experiment #2Painting(acrylic and food coloring suspended inside a jar with water+cornstarch mixtu-re)13x6 cms diameter.2015Exhibition format:Option 1: objectOption 2: installation/expanded versionOption 3: photograph (print medium, variable)

Configuring and Reconfiguring ClothesSculpture

Size, variableSeries of 50 used clothes

2015

Ghost Painting 4003 (packaging category)Painting

18x22x23 cms. (flat)2015

Ghost Painting 4006 (packaging category)Painting19x14x17 cms. (flat)2015

Installation shot in a residential space

Ghost Painting 3002 (Toldos category)Painting344x333 cms. (flat)2015

Installation shot in a residential space

Ghost Painting 3005 (Toldos category)Painting

332x293 cms. (flat)2015