Kiri Dalena
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Kiri Dalena is a visual artist, filmmaker and human rights activist who lives and works in the Philippines. Her work deals with issues of political and social injustice, drawing from events in Philippine history. Dalena's works utilise diverse media and expressive languages, evoking an imaginative force that challenges the "reality" viewers maintain in their consciousness, as well as the frameworks that shape the significance of her work. [1]
Erased Slogans (2008)
Among Dalena's most recognized works is Erased Slogans, a series of photographic prints begun in 2008 that depicts protesters holding placards with their slogans digitally removed. Based on archival images of Manila protests in the 1970s during the Marcos regime, the series alludes to the silencing of voices of dissent as well as ongoing acts of protest in the region and across the globe.[2] According to the artist, "the blank placards offer a silence that is necessary for reflection."[3]
Red Book of Slogans (2008)
Red Book of Slogan is an adjoining work of the Erased Slogans. The ‘expunged’ and ‘censored’ slogans in Erased Slogans compiled into a 700-pages book, with one slogan per page. The form of Red Book of Slogans reminiscent of an expanded communist red book or a bible. [1]
Southern Tagalog Exposure
Co-founded by Kiri Dalena with King Catoy in 2001, Southern Tagalog Exposure is a multimedia collective that focuses on producing and exhibiting digital video documentaries and audio-visual works that address socio-political concerns. The group "appropriates multimedia as medium to advance social change."[4] In 2007, the collective in collaboration with the Free Jonas Burgos Movement made the short anthology documentary film Rights, in which Dalena directed two short films that are in the form of public service announcements.
