Mo Space, 2025
“Earthbound”

by Marionne Contreras, Steffi Cua, and Geraldine Javier
  Curated by Stephanie Frondoso
Arranged as an immersive installation, the show invites audiences to engage by navigating a space that brings them closer to nature.

For the exhibit Earthbound, Geraldine Javier, Marionne Contreras, and Steffi Cua worked with natural dyes and ecoprints to create tapestries, clothing, and sculptural objects as a sustainable approach to artmaking.
Taken at Marionne’s studio.
Since antiquity, clothing has been a means of communicating beliefs, values, gender roles, and other aspects of cultural heritage; it is an object that represents the wearer to the world.

The artists’ research guided them to contemplate on clothing as a tangible expression of culture, tradition and social identity.
Geraldine Javier, Marionne Contreras, and Steffi Cua worked with natural dyes and ecoprints to create tapestries, clothing, and sculptural objects as a sustainable approach to artmaking.



 
Twigs Series (Do I look nice enough for you?) no. 1-12 by Marionne Contreras, 2024-2025
Found twig, eco-printed cotton fabric, cotton yarn, thread


“Untitled” by Geraldine Javier, 2025
Glass jar, cotton fabric, plants, flowers
The installation utilises slender bamboo stands created by Geraldine Javier’s studio to mimic the verticality of trees, hoisting a "canopy" of eco-printed silhouettes that visitors must navigate.














“The title Earthbound refers to our connection to the soil and our use of natural materials that can safely be returned to the earth. The show presents the ways we cope and deal with our anxieties over environmental crisis. It is a form of recovering and reconnecting, fully embracing what nature has given us. By surrounding ourselves with these artworks and by wearing the clothes, we are reminded of that connection.”






Ecoprinting is a natural dyeing technique that uses plants to create patterns and colors on fabric.
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