Date: March 2009
Medium: Glass, Scent, Boxes
Consumerism was, arguably, the religion of the twentieth century and continues to be so today. It is ubiquitous and invasive, driven by human frivolity, material prosperity and quick-pace technology. This installation aimed to promote an enlightened awareness of one of the undesirable effects of consumerist culture, specifically, the rapid irruption and spread of destructive consumerist elements that have blighted the urban landscape in Manila, Philippines, the city where I grew up. It is evolved from the concern with the faculty of memory and its unique relationship with the olfactory sense of perception. Unavoidably, the installation, being physical and tangible in nature, necessarily creates a visual experience. But it can also be defined by its olfactory elements mainly through the use of various scents which I gathered or concocted from the urban landscape and placed in glass bottles which I designed and personally crafted through the glass-blowing techniques I learned in order to execute the project.
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Exhibited at the College of Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines Diliman and the Ateneo Art Gallery,
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