This series is a feminist rewriting of Filipino myths. I rewrite these myths through sculptural depictions of Filipino myths about flowers, where the trope of the feminine icon is often punished for behaving badly. In this series I reimagine the narratives told behind the eyes of the women themselves. Whereas, the myths depict these women to be remorseful, I reimagine the myths through a renewed feminine gaze, ripe with sensuality and femininity.
Title: Rose
Date: September 2018
Medium: Two sets of Lampworked Glass and Live Flowers
Dimensions: 24 inches x 12 inches x 11.8 inches
Rose, is part of this series of sculptures that are based on the tropes of women in Filipino myths about flowers. In this particular myth, a woman is turned into a rose. She is a lovestruck young woman whose love is never reciprocated because her lover is killed by the Spanish colonizers, thus resulting in her transformation into the flower. This particular set depicts the female form in the middle of the transformative state. The forms are nude, and are in poses that claim agency instead of remorse, giving the character from the myth a second life reimagined through the sculptures.
Title: Camia ( Her Hands)
Date: November 2018
Medium: Lampworked Glass, Live Flower
Dimensions:5 inches x 11.5 inches x 4 inches
In this particular myth, a woman once again disappears after disoberying her parent’s wishes. What remains is a flower as soft as her hands. The name of the flower, Camia, is a play on the tagalog word Kamay which means ‘hands’. In this particular case it means, ‘her hands’.
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.
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