Wawi navarroza biography of michael jackson

Wawi Navarroza is a Filipina lens-based artist recognized as one of the foremost names in contemporary Southeast Asian art today. She is known for her vibrant large format photographic tableaus, landscapes and self-portraits which speak of the hybridity of identity, photography, and place.

With 25 years of art practice in photography, she has developed her own visual language that combines tableau vivant with in-studio mise en scène, lighting and lens-work that create collage-like pieces.

She plays with the medium and her hand is seen in all stages of the work including the hidden deliberate cuts-and-pastes within the digital image and in the choice of exacting artist frames.

Born and raised in Manila and educated with higher education in the West, Navarroza draws upon her lived experience as a female artist, Filipino, Asian, and transnational in creating her kaleidoscopic compositions that echo the flatness and polychrome drawn from the heritage and birthright of oriental art.

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