“La Cena ”
Date: November 2013
Medium: Glass, Clams, Dinner Setup
On this day I collaborated with Chef Sal Marzili of the Old Canteen in the Italian district in Providence, Rhode Island. I then invited several people to lunch. I set up the table with pink and white flowers. La Cena, which means “the dinner” in Italian, is a participatory installation wherein I invite the viewers to an intimate meal. I collaborated with an Italian chef in order to create an aphrodisiac-based experience where I installed the glass figures of the female body into the dishes served. This time the clams and oysters were the heads on the shunga bodies. The restaurant was chosen specifically for the pink and floral interiors, which invoked a sense of the feminine. Although the literal use of the body through the sculptures is an important element, the body of the viewers is also highlighted through the ingestion of the aphrodisiacs. Pink flowers are installed on the table. Smell and taste play an important role in the creation of the experience. The conversations that occurred during the meal interestingly turned to repressed emotion and sexuality, suggesting that the atmosphere and props provoked intimacy and openness.
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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