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ARTFAIRPH/PROJECTS



Manuel Ocampo
Ideological Mash-Up/Remix

Curatorial Notes

Any attempt at distilling Manuel Ocampo’s work into sensible words quickly becomes a vain effort. In his images, ideas float arbitrarily and the sight of a familiar image is immediately interrupted—giving its viewer little chance for comfort. For his Art Fair Philippines exhibit, he shows the work that he produced during his Printmaking residency in STPI - Creative Workshop and Gallery, Singapore in 2019.

The project was a striking shift in the artist’s usual mode of production. Developing print and paper experimentations with a team of printmakers requires deliberate arrangements, a disruption to his own norm, but a nod to the volatility that is central to his work.


About the Artist

Manuel Ocampo (1965) is known for his frequent and strategic stylistic drifts in response to new contexts and subject matter. His shows are often constructed around contradictory tendencies, elaborating discrepancies between what a painting appears to be and how it behaves in relation to the structures that legitimate its appearance. He always embraces sudden shifts of style and emphasis. He paints, but doubt is created as to whether any particular medium is the solution. Manuel currently lives and works in Quezon City, Philippines.

During his 2019 residency with STPI - Creative Workshop and Gallery, he translated his distinctive visual language to the mediums of tapestries, print and paper, bringing new techniques to his typical imagery. His resultant works deftly straddle ambiguity and accessibility and are supplied with a ghostly backdrop of complex materiality and history, onto which he layers his own.





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