Date: 2010
Medium: Glass, Collected Scent, Boxes, Antlers, Wood
Dimensions: variable
Thirty one scents are exhibited in hand blown glass bottles in order to depict current and historic narratives in Philippine history. The scents are displayed in a mock perfume bar setup, called “Ma-I” the precolonial name of the Philippines. The installation included scents such as “War” which smelled like gunpowder and “Government” which smelled like rotten eggs. Also included were various natural scents such as such as ube and pandan which were named after the artist’s memories.
Exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum as part of a group exhibition entitled Thrice Upon A Time:A Century of Story in the Art of the Philippines, 2009
(deer antlers borrowed from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Collection)
top photo by JL Javier, 2024
bottom photo by
Anna Frumenti, 2021
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Goldie Poblador is a visual artist who merges glass sculpture, performance, and video into multi-sensory installations that address themes of climate change and the emancipation of the female body.
Artist Biography
Goldie Poblador is a Filipina visual artist who creates multi-sensory installations that merge glass scent, sound and performance that address themes of ecology and decolonization as it relates to the emancipation of the female body.
Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally at such institutions as Artpace, The Corning Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, 601Artspace, The Knockdown Center, Saudi National Museum, The Rubin Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Fine Art Museum of Hanoi, Lopez Memorial Museum, Art Fair Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The National Museum of the Filipino People and The Cultural Center of the Philippines.
She is the first Filipino artist to be acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass. She has received grants from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the University of the Philippines, the Puffin Foundation and a President’s Scholarship from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has completed residencies at Artpace, the Corning Museum of Glass, Oakspring Garden Foundation, MASS MoCa, and the Cité International des Arts. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines in 2009. In 2015, she obtained her MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Registered as Goldieland Studio / New York, NY