Tags: Graphic Arts, Visual arts
By KC Santos
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA– A group of visual artists is seeking to raise awareness on human rights violations through various artworks.
The group Artist’s ARREST has an ongoing exhibit title “FACT SHEET” featuring various paintings, collages, and other artworks centered on human rights violations based on the infamous “Morong 43” case.
On February 6, 2010, about 43 health workers in Morong, Rizal were abducted and reportedly subjected to torture by the military on suspicion that the workers were New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas.
Rustom Casia, a member of Artist’s ARREST, shares that some of the artworks they made for the fourth series of the exhibit are based on “factual data.”
He says “fact sheets” containing the sworn statements of the Morong 43 victims were used by the artists to create their masterpieces for the exhibit.
The documents entrusted to the artists are to be kept safe and hidden and only the artworks made out of the fact sheets were shown to exhibit visitors.
“Kusang-loob na nagsilbi ang mga taong ito sa liblib na bayan ng Morong, tapos papasaringan pa silang mga militante. (These people wholeheartedly served the remote communities in Morong and they get accused of being militants),” Casia laments.
Casia says Artist’s ARREST has taken the FACT SHEET exhibit to hospitals, churches, and the streets.
“Nung makita nila yung artworks, nagtaka sila. Bakit daw hindi nila alam yung kaso ng Morong 43 (Some who saw the exhibit were wondering why they never knew about the case of the Morong 43),” recalls Casia, when they brought the artworks to a church for their first mobile exhibit.
Casia further shares that artists from Los Angeles and San Francisco took notice of the exhibit and have requested that digital images of the artworks be relayed through the Internet.
“Gumawa kayo ng mga obra hindi para sumikat, gumawa ka para may magbago. (Create artworks not for prestige but for change),” Casia says.
The FACT SHEET exhibit organized by Artists’ ARREST is still ongoing at Tomato Bomb along Xavierville Loyola Heights in Quezon City. For more info, visit http://artistsarrest.multiply.com
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