TIME TUNNEL
RANDALF DILLA
5 September 2023 -
28 October 2023
Groundspace
Taken from the 1960s television program of the same name, where lost scientists travel back and forth in time, Time Tunnel depicts Randalf Dilla’s own imagined histories in tribute to some prominent figures of Philippine art history, namely, Juan Luna, Fabian de la Rosa, and Fernando Amorsolo. Their works are hung in the same space, and he likewise depicts them in his own paintings, yet the visions they conjured up in his mind’s eye – a train hurtling in, laden with spectral bailarinas and cantantes, the roof of a house bursting through as its inhabitants are assumed into the heavens, a pastoral landscape fading into memory, leaving behind only the images they inspired – are distinctly Dilla’s.