Festival Note
Bea Mariano strings together images of the Colonial Philippines, and overlays them with images from contemporary life, creating connections between past and present, and meditating on the power of the images themselves.
Pinagsasama-sama ni Bea Mariano ang mga litrato ng Kolonyal na Pilipinas, at sinasapawan ang mga ito ng mga larawan mula sa kontemporaryong buhay. Lumilikha siya ng mga koneksyon sa pagitan ng nakaraan at kasalukuyan, at pagninilay-nilay sa kapangyarihan ng mga imahe.
Bea Mariano experiments with words, images, sound and video. She also transcribes and translates. At present she is attempting automatic and expressionistic approaches to art-making. Some of her filmic experiments include Dominion (2023), Wound Cities (2019), Ang Persistensiya ng Alaala (2018), Kasaysayan sa mga Pagitan (2016), and mistake, momentum, memory (2013).
She was one of the digital fellows of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum’s Leaky Archive project in 2022, engaging with the institution’s Philippine colonial photographs collection. Currently, she is working on dalumat, dalumhati, dignidad, an online journal of/about decoloniality. She received her BA in Art Studies from the University of the Philippines Diliman.