Aliens of Manila: NY Colony

Current Exhibition

Aliens of Manila: New York Colony
An Installation by Leeroy NewMarch 9 - May 27, 2019
Pintô International, 431 E 12th St (#5B), New YorkPintô International launched its quarterly exhibitions program on March 9, 2019 with the opening of Aliens of Manila: New York Colony, an immersive site-specific installation by artist and designer Leeroy New, curated by Pintô director Luca Parolari, that initiated the organization’s new regularly programmed global exhibitions and event series.To inaugurate the program, Pintô International’s East Village headquarters hosted contemporary Philippine artist, Leeroy New for am artist residency throughout February 2019. During this time, New created an immersive, site-specific installation responding to the structure of the space. The artist engineered Aliens of Manila: New York Colony a warping, psychedelic sculpture constructed from food covers, flexible conduit, fiberglass strips, cable ties, and other materials that clings to the architecture of Pintô’s East Village loft. The sculpture comprises materials from recycling centers, surplus shops, dollar stores, and industrial market districts local to New York.New also presented a series of wearable sculptures — an extension of his design projects in interdisciplinary design and architecture — for his ongoing Aliens of Manila project. Started in 2014, Aliens of Manila is an artistic series referencing and re-appropriating the archetypal New York street-style photography. For the project, the artist, his friends, and local collaborators don the costumes in public as a kind of “material conduit” between the artist and the environment. This “staged displacement” creates a literal and visual duality between the native and the “alien.” The series speaks to the wider experience of cultural displacement but is profoundly informed by the artist’s own familial experience with the phenomenon of what he refers to as “OFW” — Overseas Filipino Workers.New’s Aliens of Manila made also public appearances in New York City throughout the week of the exhibition opening. Follow us on Instagram for details.

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