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Installation Art

(The Cry of the Dead Whale, Biboy Royong)

Philippine artist Biboy Royong sent a powerful message about plastic pollution to his country and the
world. He revealed his work of art; a 78-foot-long whale sculpture made entirely of plastics recovered
from the ocean. Royong built the sculpture using single-use grocery bags, water bottles, cups, straws,
cutlery, and ghost fishing gear. Royong named this piece “the Cry of the Dead Whale,” which he installed
in front of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila Bay to demonstrate the severe impact of
human plastic consumption. Since the Philippines is the 3rd largest contributor to plastic waste in our
oceans, Biboy’s objective is to make people see the effects of plastics on the sea. I think this is one way to
send people a message about what is happening to the world. As we can see from the art, the whale has
plastic bags in its mouth which is most likely the cause of its death.

(OMG Christ, Ernest Concepcion)

Concepcion is a studio artist whose work experiments with intense emotion, deconstructing images in his
paintings, sculptures, and installations. He creates art like recording a music album, where each painting
is from a series of nine. Concepcion describes it as producing an old favorite, a classic sleeper hit, and one
piece he doesn’t like but keeps returning to. OMG Christ depicts the juxtaposition of the nostalgic,
religious references of his childhood and the pop-art culture he has been exposed to since his adolescent
years.
I can’t find word art in the Philippines, so I chose Pop art instead. Concepcion used his exposure from his
childhood and then applied this to his present skills.