LSSIISLTENNT is a solo exhibition by Manila based artist Poklong Anading. Anading is interested to capture the moment of tension in between ends before they slip to each own tendencies. Whatever it might be in a particular situation of a place and transpose it to somewhere else. Anading prefers to place the audiences in being in between state as a way to experience themselves.

The exhibition title LSSIISLTENNT takes direct reference from the act of listening and to be silent. The coupling of these two words focuses on the slippage between the two, it is only when we listen carefully and hear nothing that we start to understand the very nature of our inner voices. LSSIISLTENNT conveys a transitory state of simultaneous translation and contemplation, action and inaction, participation and observation, in an attempt to place the audiences on the verge of enlightenment. Muteness invites us to rethink our ties with time, space and our movement and the elements that make us human.

In his solo show, Anading will exhibit a compilation of video, photography and installation. Among the artworks on show, a mouse trap made with neon light which will be related to Untitled-Gutter, 2010, a large scale light box exhibited at ARTHK11 (Booth 1A01) to Revisiting Sunday I and II two videos documenting people lining up in a mall to attend a holy mass and children playing on a bleacher. Untitled (caskets), 2009 is a large scale installation that utilizes plastic moldings of daily objects that will be installed to transform the gallery into a space of recreation with obstacles.

“...in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, no attainment and no non-attainment" - from the Heart Sutra

Artist: Poklong Anading
Curator: David Chan