Sea Anomaly
Exhibited as part of “The Rise of Medusa” for the Special Exhibtions section of Art Fair Philippines 2025
Exhibited at S.E.A. Focus Art Fair Singapore and Art Fair Philippines in 2024
Exhibited at Yve Yang Gallery in 2023
Photos courtesy of Corning Museum of Glass Studio
In the face of mankind’s evil, what dark power springs forth from the sea? In Sea Anomaly, Goldie Poblador interprets the vulnerable and essential species of marine invertebrates from the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines. In 2023, two behemoth oil tankers spilled an estimated 870,000 liters of industrial oil into the passage, threatening the survival of its biodiverse marine life. By reimagining these species in glass, Poblador works toward harnessing the resilience and dark feminine power of the ocean, toeing the line between beauty and terror, arming herself with nature’s divine power. In her contention with neoimperialism and climate crisis, she invokes Magwayen, the Bisayan goddess of death and the ocean, discovering her sprawling anatomical forms, her bioluminescence. What lurks beneath the surface of the ocean man has laid waste to? And whose great and terrifying beauty will we face once the tides turn? - Apa Agbayani
Special thanks to Joseph Sousa and Apa Agbayani , Joaquin Silvestre of the Biodiversity Management Bureau Coastal and Marine Division in the Philippines ,Corning Museum of Glass
Sound: “Double Image (Hum)” Written and performed by Juan Miguel Sobrepeña and Armi MillareProduced by Erwin Romulo(2017, Exclusively licensed by Lovol and Stoa Studio) Description: Electronic composition using field recordings (La Union, Philippines; Siargao, Philippines) and voice Duration: 3:54 minutes
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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