Collection: Avie Felix

Avie Felix is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, curator and writer. A graduate of BA Art Studies and MA Art History, she is an assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) teaching cinema studies and film theory. A collaborator of Independent Curators International (ICI), headquartered in New York, she is the current curator for the Philippine Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale.

The pieces in Avie's abstract series are results of incorporating art in meditations and centering body-mind-spirit. Each day, a few hours is spent to pause and carefully create each line of geometric abstraction with utmost attention to breathing, posture, tension and though. The selection of colors, materials and textures is intuitive and reactionary to the actual moment. The passage of time, days and months is overall seen as a recording of experience. The paintings are outcomes of the art, the actual art is the process; the artist and her presence are part of the medium.

With each work, balance is achieved through imbalance, synchronicity through synchronicity, flow through disruptions and distractions, and harmony in contrasting hues and directions. Seen as a whole, the series is a collection of time capsules.