Tabo (Exhibition View)

Photograph of Roberto Chabet's Tabo, a 12-channel video installation with each video showing a view of the Pasig River taken from each of the 12 bridges that cross it. The sound is a reading of the first chapter of Jose Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo in Spanish.

The first chapter of the novel talks about the steamship 'Tabo' sailing on the Pasig River. Rizal used it as a metaphor for the different levels of social classes in the Philippines during the Spanish rule.

Tabo was included in the exhibition with the same title in Lopez Memorial Museum from 10 November 2011 - 14 April 2012, as part of 'Roberto Chabet: Fifty Years', a year-long series of exhibitions organised by King Kong Art Projects Unlimited in various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong and Manilafrom 2011 - 2012.

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2011

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Philippines

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12-channel video installation

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Tabo (Exhibition View)