Pure Pleasure, 2026
GOOD GOD BAD BOY, 2026
Video, single-channel, sound, 9 min 20 sec
Until eventually, I become you 2026
(After Conrado Gar Agustin's Men and Memories in Confinement')
Oil, Capiz, acetone, Piña, and Burn marks on Glass, Photographic print
70cm x 80cm
Darlings Between Fires, 2025
Piña, Doily, Oil on Wood, Artist Frame
62 cm x 82 cm
Darlings Between Fires are layered oil paintings with piña fabric and table doilies, presented as outputs of the artists' ongoing research on the post-colonial Filipino identity. The images are based on archival photographs of Filipinos in Mindanao during the Pacific War, when Japanese immigrants lived alongside locals. Historically, photographs are considered factual evidence. This ongoing research continues to suspect photography as a historical truth-teller, as documents demonstrate certain biases. The Japanese archives depict harmony and coexistence, while American soldiers’ images reveal brutality and atrocity, while journals and collected mementoes of Filipino prisoner Conrado Gar Agustin offer personal fragments. These conflicting accounts expose recorded history as partisan and varying. The series embraces this tension, weaving delicate truths into complex images of memory.
I want to lick your wounds, 2024
8'53" video
Projected on Piña, Hanji, Wood, and Cotton
260 cm x 150cm
‘I want to lick your wounds’ is a poetic rumination on a journey of seeking the possibility of a “comfort gay" post-WW2, inspired by the story of Walter Dempster Jr., who came out as a one in the Philippines during the early 2000s.
This work is part of an ongoing artistic research project on queer narratives, its poetics and erasures, during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines and Korea
Audio Language: Bisaya
Subtitle: Korean, English
Original Poem by Augustine Paredes
Narrated by Egbert Amoncio
Translated to Bisaya by Anna Miguel Cervantes and Melona Grace Mascariñas
Translated to Korean by Boa Song
Research support by MMCA Residency Goyang, Basis Frankfurt, Donghoon Gang, Anna Miguel Cervantes and Todd A Henry
Leaking Wounds, 2024
Incense burns on Hanji