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Dubai travel: Expo2020 Dubai || Philippines || The Bangkota Pavilion || visit #4

The Philippines pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is the story of the Filipino people and the country's overseas workers flying high as global citizens

Designed under the theme ‘Bangkóta’ – an old Tagalog word for coral reef – the pavilion was conceived by architect Royal Pineda, principal of Philippines-based firm Budji+Royal Architecture+Design, and curated by independent curator Marian Pastor Roces.

It represents the Filipinos as an overlapping and extensive community, and the Philippines as “a nation bound by zealous interconnectivity, a culture of compassion, and a tropical, fevered imagination”.

Striking pieces of art in the pavilion will stage Filipino artistry: from the sculpture of a mythological figure by Duddley Diaz; a suspended techno-mythological piece by Dan Raralio; human-bird forms by the late Riel Hilario; a sculpture titled “Soaring High” by contemporary artist Charlie Co that depicts floating men and women representing expatriate Filipino workers who are flying “to everywhere, for everything, in every possible way forward – and back to the Philippines”; and an explosion of bird forms by Toym Imao.

Sculptural work by artist Lee Paje exquisitely complements the underwater and wildlife photography of Scott “Gutsy” Tuason and Ivan Sarenas.

Other stunning sculptures that add to the artistic setting of the pavilion are a three-dimensional filigree boat by artist Patrick Cabral; and a helix embedded with the names of Filipinos of different cultures by Baby and Coco Anne, in the form of a tall upward spiral that carries the 65,000 years of genetic mixing in the Philippine archipelago.

A mural of the Filipino movement painted by Dex Fernandez will also evoke emotion among thousands of overseas Filipinos in the UAE.

The artworks are connected in a symphony of music and melodies composed by Ramon Santos, a national artist for music in the Philippines, who will take visitors deeper into the journey experience.

An area with a 180° screen is an audio-visual presentation titled “Our Gift to the World”: the Philippines’ call to end racial divisions. The video centres on contemporary dance that poetically gathers motifs of Philippine life, choreographed by Denisa Reyes and Japhet Mari "JM" Cabling, to music by young composer Teresa Barroso.

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