Collection: Anim: Katorse

A New Ground for Seeing

𝑱𝒆𝒇𝒇 𝑫𝒂𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒏, 𝑲𝒖𝒕𝒛 𝑫𝒆 𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒂, 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒛𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂, 𝑳𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑳𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒔𝒂, 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒚, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑱𝒐𝒚 𝑮𝒐, 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒂, 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔, 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒂𝒔, 𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒂𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒆 arrive here from different points in their artistic lives. Some have been working for many years; others have taken more recent paths into painting and image-making. There are practices that have accumulated, practices that have shifted, and practices still finding their direction.

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟.

The works move through the familiar—figures, objects, flowers, landscapes, imagined scenes, the physical act of painting—but rarely leave them as they are first encountered. An image can become more than its subject. A material can carry its own meaning. A familiar form can be pushed toward memory, atmosphere, play, tension, or something less easily named.

This is where Katorse becomes interesting.

Its value is not in making fourteen artists share a style, but in allowing their differences to change the way each work is seen.

The longer histories of Camille Dela Rosa, Maia Magpantay, Dante Enage, Jeff Dahilan, Darwin Guevarra, Christian Regis, Lara Latosa, and Raeche meet the different trajectories of Kutz De Jesus, Christian Gonzales, Mary Joy Go, Summer Pasana, Angelo Roxas, and Valerie Teng. They are not arranged here to establish who comes first or who comes next. Their practices simply occupy the same ground, and that proximity gives each work another context.