Maps: In the Folding of Strata, a free hybrid event, welcomes guests into the creative process of Filipino contemporary artist Lui Medina.

In this artist talk organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Medina will discuss how she utilizes landscapes as a framework to interrogate form and figure.

Her works in exhibitions such as The Notion of the Edge (2018) and Where does landscape begin? (2016) were both at Artinformal. They explore the plasticity of topographies and how expanses can become isolated parcels, islands into sprawls, landscapes without landmarks, mainly with the use of graphite.

This interest in shapes and the organic has in turn also molded the materials and the canvases that she uses for her drawings and paintings.

Medina’s works are part of MCAD’s ongoing exhibition Adaptation: A Reconnected Earth. The show proposes an approach to determining the present within the realities of a changed climate, a despairing planet and a recently renewed humanity.

Medina graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in 2003 and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the Slade School of Art in London in 2008. In 2018, she was artist-in-residency at Fusion/ Inaudita in Turin, Italy.

She has been part of exhibitions at the Langgeng Art Foundation in Jogjakarta (2017), Mind Set Art Center in Taipei (2016), and Equator Art Projects in Singapore (2015).

Maps: In the Folding of Strata is free and open to the public. It will be held on Thursday, April 20, 2023, 3 p.m.

Interested participants may register through https://forms.gle/uMJ7gHAJn6i3Khy36.

For more information, email mcad@benilde.edu.ph or call +02 8230 5100 local 3897.