JPM-Press Release-2022-25

Filipino artist Ms. Eunice Sanchez (right), together with fellow 2022 ASEAN Artists Residency Awardee, Mr. Saiful Razman (left) from Malaysia, reveal their artwork at the Artwork Handover Ceremony held at the ASEAN Secretariat Gallery during the celebration of the 55th Founding Anniversary of ASEAN (Photo Credit: ASEAN Secretariat)

“Pugad”, artwork of Ms. Eunice Sanchez displayed at the ASEAN Secretariat Gallery (Photo Credit: ASEAN Secretariat)

9 August 2022, Jakarta – Filipino artist and 2022 ASEAN Artists Residency Programme (AARP) awardee Eunice Sanchez paid a courtesy call on Chargé d'Affaires, a.i. Elizabeth T. Te on 9 August 2022 at the Philippine Mission to ASEAN.

During the call, Ms. Sanchez explained that her artwork, Pugad, engages with the necessity of movement and migration that is ingrained in human history. “I wanted something that will depict how paglisan (leaving) is natural to mankind but there is also the irony of how we attune to the idea of home, of how we’re always seeking the familiar".

Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. Te congratulated Ms. Sanchez for the honor that she brought to the Philippines as her artwork, along with that of Malaysia’s Saiful Razman, was unveiled during the Artwork Handover Ceremony at the Gallery of the ASEAN Secretariat during the 55th Founding Anniversary of ASEAN on 8 August 2022.

Miss Sanchez and fellow awardee Saiful Razman of Malaysia spent one month in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates as 2022 ASEAN Artists Residency Awardees. During her residency in Sharjah, Miss Sanchez produced an artwork entitled “Pugad” (Filipino for “nest”), which delves on human diaspora. The artwork is an assemblage of cyanotype prints and fabric pieces hand-stitched together to create a personal cartography.

The ASEAN Artists Residency Programme, in partnership with Maybank Foundation and the Sharjah Art Foundation, received more than 60 applications from young emerging artists based in 10 Southeast Asian nations. The artists were selected based on the strength of their proposals and the potential of the residency to support the growth of their careers.

Miss Sanchez, a visual artist who works for the Ayala Museum in the Philippines, works primarily with photography and alternative photographic processes. She has mounted several exhibitions in both the Philippines and abroad. She published a photography book which earned the silver in the International Photography Awards-Philippines in 2017. (END)

Ms. Eunice Sanchez (second from left) pays a courtesy call on Elizabeth T. Te (third from left), Chargé d'Affaires, a.i., Permanent Mission of the Philippines to ASEAN, together with Mr. Romeo Arca (leftmost), Community Relations Division Head, ASEAN Secretariat, Third Secretary Noel Rodriguez (fourth from left), Permanent Mission of the Philippines to ASEAN and Ms. Clariz Malabanan (fifth), Cultural Officer, Permanent Mission of the Philippines to ASEAN