Born in 1987. Lives and works in Manila, Philippines
As an artist, foreign objects play a pivotal role in the construction and retention of my personal identity. My work attempts to visually articulate the romanticization of identity by using archaic objects and museum images as a primary subject matter. Objects of memory are either exalted, preserved, or led to obsolesce according to how the present perceives its value. Using my background in decorative illustration, I use ornamentation and design in order to romanticize subjects of my choosing. By manipulating museum displays—objects held in high regard by scholars or the people who own them, I acknowledge man’s fallible nature of keeping and translating memory into object. As objects move through time, its location is transferred, it is replicated, and it loses its original purpose and meaning. Its viewer changes and its physical material degrades. Some objects become purely antiquarian or decorative, just like how it is used in my own home, yet it still remains relevant as it is capable of elevating or changing identity.
EDUCATION / RELATED WORK
2014 Studio Member, Brooklyn Art Space
2013 Studio Assistant, Erik Jones
2013 Continued Education, New York Academy of Art
2010 BA Humanities, University of Asia and the Pacific, Philippines
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Telephone Game, Underground Gallery, ALT Philippines
2019 Ellipses, Pinto Art Museum, Philippines
2019 Vestiges, Underground Gallery, Philippines
2016 Recent Works, Secret Fresh Gallery, Philippines
FEATURED IN
2018 Quand l’illustration Rencontre Le Portrait, Pratique Des Arts 138
2016 Recent Works at Secret Fresh, The Philippine Star
2015 Valerie Chua, story feature, Purveyr Magazine
2015 Anatomy of a Muse, Preview Magazine
2015 17 Brilliant Artists To Follow When You’re In A Creative Slump, Buzzfeed
2012 DPI Magazine Taiwan, cover feature
