From 26 August to 21 November 2015 Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) presents The Vexed Contemporary. This exhibition includes 16 Filipino artists whose practices lend themselves to a global compass, operating using an artistic language that aims to challenge a perennial characterization when represented on local and global platforms.

The exhibition, more importantly, asks questions regarding how contemporary art processes produced a multifaceted paradigm, the challenges of contemporaneity and how the artist treads the precarious balance of a global practice without falling into the mode of essentialism. The exhibition shares work put together to create an environment of participation and mediation, of visual and spatial challenges.

Participating artists: Pio Abad/Poklong Anading/Victor Balanon/Yason Banal/Lena Cobangbang/Louie Cordero/Kiri Dalena/Leslie De Chavez/Kawayan De Guia/Patricia Perez Eustaquio/Cocoy Lumbao/Gina Osterloh/Gary-Ross Pastrana/Ikoy Ricio/Maria Taniguchi/The Weather Bureau

For more information, please contact Patricia Paredes (patriciaana.paredes@benilde.edu.ph) or call (632)  2305100 loc. 3897. View MCAD map: https://goo.gl/mPYv6h