Marina Cruz : Tide Table｜ Curator: Patrick Flores: Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts

16 July - 17 October 2021
Marina Cruz : Tide Table｜ Curator: Patrick Flores, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts

Opens | 10:00 - 17:00 *closed on Monday and National Holidays
Organizer | Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Co-organizer | MSAC

Following the special exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (KdMoFA) has collaborated with Mind Set Art Center (MSAC) to present a heavyweight exhibition: “Tide Table” by Filipino female artist Marina Cruz. This will be Cruz’s first museum show in Taiwan and a fruit of her long-term collaboration with MSAC, which has built a deep engagement in Asian contemporary art and unique tastes in art selection, it serves as the trustworthy platform for collectors. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Patrick Flores, who will serve as the chief curator for Taiwan at the 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2022. The show presents a collection of vital artworks from the artistic practice of Marina Cruz, which involves diverse artistic techniques and media. The artworks on display include paintings on canvases, fabric collages, laminated photos, and embroidery evoked by the artist’s personal history intertwined with the biography of her house comprehensively. Altogether, the collection showcases a variety of aspects of her artistic career spanning over more than 20 years.

Marina Cruz grew up with her maternal grandmother in an old house as her parents were both busy working. During her youth, she developed a deep connection with the historical objects of her family, the old house and the maternal genealogy. Cruz’s practice focuses on the motif of familial memories and existence of life. With fine strokes and elegant lines, Cruz paints the vintage clothes that the family elders sewed by hand. The practice allows her to record details of her residence and to awaken parts of her personal history.
The house was also subject to frequent floods, a natural phenomenon that was considered both a disaster and a routine occurrence. Cruz records the stains left by the floods and the dates of these incidents in a time table. The unique record is her way of presenting the trials and tribulations that humans go through in tackling changes in nature. The curator has named the exhibition “Tide Table” as a way to reflect Cruz’s life story and to hint that the artist has condensed much of her sentiments, as well as the shifts in nature and history, in the tide table.
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