Maria Taniguchi’s Echoes

You spend a good number of minutes watching a video documentary on a large flat LCD screen showing workers chiseling pieces of marble with electric powered tools. You are seated on a long wooden bench—there are two of them, more like rectangular boxes— facing the two LCD screens positioned side by side. Behind the monitors, you can see some greenery in the pocket garden outside the floor to ceiling glass windows of the gallery in that part of the UP Vargas Museum where Maria Taniguchi’s works are on exhibit.