"An Examination of Conscience" is an exhibition proposal conceived by curator, Vanini Belarmino in close collaboration with Filipino artist, Leslie de Chavez and the exhibition design team of WY-TO as her competition entry for the Philippine Pavilion 59th Venice Biennale.
The working title "An Examination of Conscience" is borrowed from the forty-fourth chapter of Dr. Jose Rizal’s Noli me Tangere (Touch Me Not), a seemingly plain if not at all a dull scene from the seminal novel that offers a sense of ambiguity, leaving hints enough to provide the element of suspense, yet with the absence of excitement. The exhibition hopes to build on an experience of entering and being one with work of the artist. Inspired by the architecture of the Catholic church, the different sections resemble aspects of entering a space of introspection.
