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In late August, Alfredo Aquilizan was standing in the middle of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) gallery in Sydney, surrounded by what looked like a miniature city after a hurricane had swept through. Small model houses made from cardboard boxes were scattered haphazardly across the concrete floor. Some had been crushed and discarded; others were piled into broken and twisted heaps, their tiny picket fences—made from kebab sticks—strewn everywhere. A few houses appeared to have survived the storm intact. Alfredo, with detectable melancholy, surveyed the devastation, snapping away with his Leica camera, recording the wreckage.
However, this was not quite the scene of tragedy that it first appeared to be. It was the tail end of a successful project by Alfredo and his wife Isabel. Since the project’s inception several weeks earlier, In-Habit: Project Another Country (2012) had grown as the local community gradually contributed additional makeshift cardboard houses to the initial installation. From a tiny hamlet, to a village, it grew to become a sprawling shantytown, clinging to a web of steel scaffolding poles that reached floor to ceiling, wall to wall. After several weeks, the installation took on the look of a favela in miniature.
Alfredo watched as helpers reached in among the debris and began to recycle the unsalvageable pieces while attaching the remaining good houses to the collapsible wooden frames that will allow the installation to tour through the eastern states of Australia in 2014–15. “In-Habit is,” Alfredo told ArtAsiaPacific, “a poignant example of transience—of humans’ attempt to create permanence.”
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan are partners in life and in art, and have achieved a seamless integration of what could have easily become two polarities—in their lives, their art, their parenting, or even in being two people and never really being able to understand the other—during the years that they have been together. One of the things that has held them so closely together during that time is the responsibility they feel as parents for their five children, who range in ages from 13 to 25 years. Family responsibilities are also extended to embrace the community in which they live. This is a Filipino thing, Alfredo claimed, before telling a story of how, when they arrived in Brisbane as migrants from the Philippines in 2006 with very few possessions in tow, the local Filipino community showered them with gifts. “We immediately had three televisions, computers, toys and so many clothes. I am still wearing some even now.”
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