{"id":38876,"date":"2025-09-03T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/?post_type=magazin-artikel&#038;p=38876"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:07:27","slug":"soon-at-the-schirn-stephanie-comilang","status":"publish","type":"magazin-artikel","link":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/schirnmag\/soon-at-the-schirn-stephanie-comilang\/","title":{"rendered":"Now at the SCHIRN: Stephanie Comilang"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/header-magazin-artwork'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork margin-bottom-3'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork-bg-wrapper'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork-bg-wrapper-contents'>\n\n<div  class='header-magazine-artwork-bg'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline  lazy-background-fill\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_KO7nrn\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 39464,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-300x169.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":169,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":16526},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-1024x576.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":576,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":160308},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-768x432.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":432,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":94010},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-1536x863.jpg\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":863,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":327851},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-2048x1151.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1151,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":529452},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-440x247.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":247,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":33070},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-580x326.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":326,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":56264},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-720x405.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":405,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":84665},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-1280x720.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":239261},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2-1920x1079.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1079,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":477463},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Search_for_Life_II_2025_Still_2.jpg\",\"width\":2928,\"height\":1646}},\n\"alt\" : \"A boy swims with a spear underwater among coral reefs. 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Video, colour, sound, 18:22 min.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">Courtesy of the Artist, ChertL\u00fcdde, Berlin, and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.  Search for Life is a work in the form of a diptych commissioned by TBA21, Sharjah Art Foundation, and The Vega Foundation. 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Coordinates at Dawn<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/flash-animation>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='container-fluid margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-8 margin-bottom-5'><section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/magazin-header-eigenschaften'>\n\n<div  class='magazine-header-props text-align-right'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-rem-max-width cf-side-1 cf-gutter-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><p>09\/03\/2025<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-3'>\n\n<div  class='flex-align-center-right'>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><p>9 min reading time<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"container-fluid cf-rem-max-width cf-side-1 cf-gutter-1\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col col-xs-12\"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\"><div class=\"components-image-text-person-image-small-group flex-align-top-right\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col col-xs-12\"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\"><div class=\"flex-align-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/kuenstler\/stephanie-comilang-en\/\" class=\"components-image-text-person-image-small\"><div class=\"components-image-text-person-image-small-text ho-sd-body\">Stephanie Comilang<\/div><div class=\"components-image-text-person-image-small-image\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_69d37a660ebfb\"><script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 28018,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-200x300.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":12945},\"large\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-681x1024.jpg\",\"width\":681,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":96892},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-768x1154.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1154,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":118224},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-1022x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1022,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":187951},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-1363x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1363,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":301535},\"small\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-293x440.jpg\",\"width\":293,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":24185},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-386x580.jpg\",\"width\":386,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":38440},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-479x720.jpg\",\"width\":479,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":54217},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-852x1280.jpg\",\"width\":852,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":139732},\"full\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885-1277x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1277,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":270958},\"original\":{\"file\":\"09_Stephanie-Comilang.-Foto-Trevor-Good.-Berlin-febrero-2024-scaled-e1709140724885.jpg\",\"width\":1694,\"height\":2546}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script><div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:150.29515938607%; 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Film<\/a><\/div><div class=\"ho-tag is-primary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/tag\/postcolonialism\/\" class=\"ho-tag-label\">Postcolonialism<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 last-xs col-md-8'>\t<p class='ho-sd-h4'>The impressive cinematic installations of Stephanie Comilang strikingly alternate between documentary and poetic narratives. Through subjective storytelling, the artist intertwines questions about migration, post-colonialism, nature and technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-medien-bild-text-links-grosses-bild-rechts-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6  mobile-margin-bottom-4'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4 ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem Ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Parallel to the presence of the Philippines as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the SCHIRN is presenting the Filipino-Canadian artist and filmmaker Stephanie Comilang (*1980) in a major solo exhibition from September 25, 2025, to January 4, 2026. For the first time in Germany, her two latest films, \u201cSearch for Life: Diptych\u201d (2024\/25), will be shown, along with \u201cDiaspora Ad Astra\u201d (2020), which can be understood as a prologue to the former. In the show, Comilang\u2019s lavishly produced films are accompanied by textile works and sculptural objects to form expansive installations.<br><br>The exhibition links the maritime focus that has shaped the Philippines as an island state with questions relating to Indigenous culture and cultural exchange. Comilang examines experiences of migration and explores the themes of economy, work, technology, and postcolonial interrelations in a global context. People and nature, homeland and diaspora, labor migration and the handling of resources are among the recurring concerns of her multilayered narratives. The artist immerses herself in the context of each film\u2019s subjects as she connects past, present, and future. By blending research and history with fictional elements and the personal stories of a wide range of protagonists, she poses questions of belonging and the search for identity. In her works, Comilang confronts fairy-tale narrative structures with harsh realities. She employs cutting-edge technology to interweave fiction and authenticity, combining high-end productions with drone and smartphone recordings, vlog clips, and livestreams. The artist has coined her own term for her films: \u201cscience-fiction documentaries.\u201d<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 29908,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-200x300.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":13293},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-683x1024.jpg\",\"width\":683,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":103087},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-768x1152.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1152,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":125794},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-1024x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":205951},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-1365x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1365,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":337851},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-293x440.jpg\",\"width\":293,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":25010},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-387x580.jpg\",\"width\":387,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":40060},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-480x720.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":56652},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-853x1280.jpg\",\"width\":853,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":151240},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait-1280x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":315109},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Portrait.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":3840}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/01\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:150%; 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This approach lends Comilang\u2019s works their own special depth and artistic richness.\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='padding-top-5'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body-small'>Martina Weinhart, Curator<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-medien-bild-text-links-grosses-bild-rechts-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6  mobile-margin-bottom-4'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4 ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Of loneliness and hopes of a sailor<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>The single-channel video installation \u201eDiaspora ad Astra\u201c (2020) tells the fictional story of a Filipino sailor. Each year, some forty thousand Filipinos leave their homeland, often for several months, to work on merchant ships that sail the globe. Contact with home is limited because internet connections are expensive and unstable.<br>Comilang\u2019s film is set during the Covid-19 pandemic, when freighters were often not allowed to dock in ports for fear of infection, causing additional stress for crews whose situation was already precarious. We see static images of a ship on a calm sea alternating with scenes of pulsating life on land, after which the horizon again spreads out over the ocean. In a voice-over recited by the artist\u2019s father, a seaman describes life and loneliness on board, ending with a mournful love song.<br><br>The montage merges shaky drone recordings reminiscent of video games with smartphone videos shot from the protagonist\u2019s point of view. Images of colonial ruins are interspersed with short videos in which the sailor describes his background as a pineapple and water-bottle salesman and his dream of becoming a singer. During quarantine, the sailor finds solace by reading the Filipino science-fiction anthology \u201cDiaspora Ad Astra\u201d (2013), which lends the film its name. A story within describes space travelers on long trading voyages. Forbidden from returning to their home planets for fear of infiltration by aliens, they must remain in orbit. The title \u201cDiaspora Ad Astra\u201d is a play on the Latin phrase \u201cper aspera ad astra,\u201d meaning \u201cthrough suffering to the stars.\u201d The idea is that surviving great adversity holds the promise of new opportunities.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 39468,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-300x154.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":154,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":14719},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-1024x526.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":526,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":115765},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-768x395.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":395,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":73735},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-1536x790.jpg\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":790,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":210963},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-2048x1053.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1053,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":316652},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-440x226.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":226,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":28644},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-580x298.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":298,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":45887},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-720x370.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":370,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":66193},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-1280x658.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":658,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":161991},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1-1920x987.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":987,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":289663},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Schirn_Presse_Stephanie_Comilang_Diaspora_Ad_Astra_2020_Still_1.jpg\",\"width\":2404,\"height\":1236}},\n\"alt\" : \"A man carries a pineapple on his back, set against a calm water landscape with clouds and trees in the background.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:51.414309484193%; 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Commissioned by TBA21\u2013Academy with the support of Institut Kunst HGK FHNW in Basel<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-medien-bild-text-links-grosses-bild-rechts-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6  mobile-margin-bottom-4'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4 ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Colonial shipping routes, butterflies and personal realities of life<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Stephanie Comilang\u2019s latest work, \u201cSearch for Life: Diptych,\u201d is a visual adventure. 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Search for Life is a work in the form of a diptych commissioned by TBA21, Sharjah Art Foundation, and The Vega Foundation. Collection of The Vega Foundation <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Pearls. A Story about global commodity flows and migration<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>The second part of the cinematic work \u201cSearch for Life: Diptych\u201d interlaces stories of the traditional practice of pearl fishing, told through encounters with Indigenous divers, with a pearl farm owner, and a second-generation Emirati-Filipino migrant woman who straddles multiple cultures as a dancer in a K-pop group. \u201cSearch for Life II\u201d is projected onto a curtain made of thousands of synthetic pearls from a factory near Shanghai. Additional pearl curtains, printed with film stills of the work, complete the installation.<br><br>Pearl fishing was once central to the cultures of the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates. Due to their high value, pearls functioned as a form of currency. The Indigenous Sama-Bajau people sustained themselves as an independent community in the Philippines through pearl diving, passing down the skill from generation to generation. Today, the traditional practice has been largely replaced by industrial pearl farming. Taking this development as a starting point, \u201cSearch for Life II\u201d sheds light on the economic and social transformation of global commodities, endeavoring to uncover which communities are behind these objects of value and who profits from them. In the Gulf States, for example, crude oil has replaced pearls as the principal raw material. The work also refers to contemporary forms of migration, as people from the Philippines now make up one of the largest migrant groups in the United Arab Emirates.<br><br>The title of the cinematic diptych, \u201cSearch for Life\u201d comes from the eponymous song by the New York indie band Dirty Projectors, whose music frames and connects the two parts of the work and is sung in karaoke scenes at the conclusion of each film. 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