Alice Sarmiento, founder of Spare Bedroom, writes “In 2024, Perez began working on a personal archive of her hometown. Through the deeply immersive craft of cyanotype printing, texture and haptics are surfaced as research methods – intimate ways of engaging with the fading and fragmented memories that spring from a lifetime of liminal spaces. Further narrated through video and scenography, Perez reanimates the past to correspond with an uncertain future, each print a dispatch from “a place on the brink.”
Poster by Allan Balisi
Title: I hope this finds you well
Location: Chapter House, Quezon City, Philippines
Duration: 28 November - 4 January 2025
Presented together with Spare Bedroom
Title: Unreel Screening 1
Location: Chapter House, Quezon City, Philippines
Programmer: Grace Simbulan
These films traverse universal themes such as grief, existence, capitalism, and the afterlife, each articulated through distinct cultural and aesthetic lenses. Together, they articulate a transnational sensibility that bridges local experiences with broader questions on contemporary life and our common humanity.
Title: Voluptuous Surrender
Location: Sine Pop, Cubao, Quezon City, PH
Programmed with Em Manlapaz, Bea Mariano, JC Rosette in collaboration with @we_film_ph with the support of RESBAK
The first iteration of Scents/ Sounds Copenhagen/ Manila featured a conversation and a collective sonic and scent exchange between both Denmark and Philippines. Two countries with seafaring histories, the project highlights notions of navigation and wayfinding in both Copenhagen and Manila.
By creating this auditory repository, the vision is to capture and make accessible cross sections of these two cultures — linked by the seas and the stars.
Copenhagen, Denmark