Gallery 3

Paper Feed

Kristone Capistrano

Paper Feed is an immersive drawing installation by Kristone Capistrano that considers how paper, mark-making, and the human hand might hold attention in an image culture shaped by screens, automation, and endless visual circulation. In a time of accelerated looking, the exhibition proposes drawing as a site of resistance and return: a way to slow perception, reawaken presence, and restore the body’s relationship to images.

Capistrano’s practice has long been concerned with touch, labour, movement, and the fragile materiality of paper. Here, these concerns unfold through encounters with landscape and the digital archive. The artist’s repeated impulse to photograph moments of light, weather, water, and sky becomes a point of departure. These images preserve fleeting experiences of the natural world, yet they also reveal a contradiction: the screen allows the moment to be kept, but can also interrupt the act of being fully present within it.

The exhibition inhabits this tension between digital capture and analogue reanimation. In one section of the gallery, drawings and printed images cascade in layered formations, recalling feathers, scales, clouds, and the rhythm of the scrolling feed. Activated by hidden fans, the paper trembles and shifts, producing a kinetic field that evokes wind, breath, water, and the strangely seamless movement of digitally rendered images.

At the centre of the space, a large-scale drawing of clouds and the sea horizon enlarges the small, portable image of the phone into a bodily encounter. Mounted on a wheeled wooden support, the work exists between image, object, and performance. Its mobility suggests a kind of drawing procession: a laborious, almost absurd attempt to return the captured image to the landscape from which it came.

A further suspended paper work responds to airflow from the gallery and courtyard, extending Capistrano’s ongoing investigations into movement, calligraphy, and the animation of drawn surfaces.

Through scale, beauty, repetition, and surprise, Paper Feed asks how drawing might still compel sustained attention. It imagines paper not as a passive surface, but as a living feed: tactile, unstable, contemplative, and alive to change.