In literature and law, an addendum is a supplement—an afterword that affirms, expands, or complicates an existing body. For Mideo M. CRUZ (ACC 2008), Addendum is both homage and interrogation: a constellation of works that reconstruct, reinterpret, or are attributed to images and gestures that have shaped both personal sensibilities and generational memory.
Some pieces in the exhibition directly engage with iconic works by other artists—functions of tribute, critique, or extension. Others are not created as references, but appear adjacent: born from a shared visual vocabulary shaped by parallel histories and a culture saturated with media, repetition, and noise.
In this exhibition, to reconstruct is not to repeat, but to reframe. Addendum asks: in a time where images circulate endlessly, what does authorship mean? When aesthetics are commodified and shared across screens, what does it mean to return to form—with intention?
Cruz presents the addendum not just as an afterword, but as a necessary gesture—to expand, to complicate, to reanimate.
Addendum
July 11, 2025 - August 08, 2025
Location: | Gravity Art Space
1810 Mother Ignacia Ave, Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Philippines |
Event Type: | Exhibition |
Grantee(s): | Mideo Cruz |