Painting Photograph, Photograph Painted

Annie Cabigting's photorealist paintings are exclusively based on documentation of iconic works by other visionary artist that inspire her, such as Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Ad Reinhardt, Yves Klein, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. Cabigting researches her artworks extensively and possesses a profound understanding of art history. Combined with her immaculate painterly technique, she has developed a keen ability to intelligently subvert the existing works of other artists. However, she does not engage these works in their known or realized forms, but explores their intrinsic potential: what they could have been or could possibly be.

Annie Cabigting examines the visual culture of art practice through the gaze, power, and semiotics of a viewing body. Our visual language habitually considers a white gallery, a frame, or canvas with paint, as a structure in processing a work of art. As the viewing body encountering the work, do we at all recognize our own contribution within the completion of a particular experience of an exhibition? The level of engagement between artist, artwork, and viewer is put into focus.

Not one to make grand pronouncements and belabored gestures, Cabigtingn quietly settles in the gulf that seems to divide artworks from its audience and artworks from each other, charging it with the ever-renewing power of imagination. In the process, she disrupts the skin of the usual and tilts the frame with which we view art, offering us an unhinged world constantly burnished by compelling wit and deceptively ordinary wisdom.