Curtains: a film in three parts is an installation composed of three parts with text, photographs, and a curtain woven from burnt textile collected at the ruins of marketplace in Mindanao. Suggestions of disaster punctuate the exhibition with broken bottles, the carcass of a burnt dog, and fragments of textile that bear the traces of a fire.  Yet, throughout the work these suggestions of disaster are consistently paired with images of anonymous windows, whose focus is not on the view outside but rather on the window itself.

Curtains: a film in three parts expands the field of vision to not only what we see, but also, to what we do not  see.  Instead of taking for granted the oft-assumed statement that vision is a window onto another world, it offers a curtain, and asks what might be seen by not seeing. By making the act of looking central to their project, Ontiveros and Dizon invite us to ask how the field of vision reflects upon the psychic lives and political subjectivities that each of us inhabit.  They ask us to consider what it is that we see when a curtain is drawn.