Shadows Between The Lines
Jonidel Mendoza
Galleria Duemila
210 Loring Street, Pasay City
Vernissage
21 June, 4–9 p.m.
Exhibition Dates
21 June–6 September 2025
In my works, the human figure—though often faceless and undefined—emerges constantly. Through a deliberate interplay of light and shadow, these figures exist in a liminal space: distant yet familiar, anonymous yet intimate. I invite my viewers to engage with the ambiguity, prompting them to fill in the gaps with their own memories, perceptions, and emotional landscapes.
Silhouettes, unfinished faces, and fragmented forms dominate the visual narrative, challenging the viewer to question what is seen versus what is suggested. By withholding certain details, absence is turned into presence.
Driven by a fascination with materiality and transformation, I incorporate unconventional materials such as organza silk, metal mesh, voltage wires, and other industrial elements. These materials—often cold and utilitarian—are reimagined through layered painting techniques and immersive installations. The result is a tension between delicacy and strength, the organic and the industrial, the seen and the obscured.
What I offer is the idea that identity and memory are not fixed but fluid—shaped by what we remember, what we forget, and what we choose to reconstruct. Through my work, I offer a space for contemplation, encouraging viewers to confront the fragmented, shifting nature of the self.
Jonidel Mendoza, May 2025
Exhibition Notes
Self-silhouette
Interceptions of Reflection
Face to Face Between the Lines
Yesterday and Day Before A Portrait of You
Evidence of the Convert
Echo of What We Are There In What We See…
Echo of the Reflection in the Window
In the Midst of Evanescent Society
Anonymous Silhouette Whose Life, Along With Ours Passes, Dies, and Endures
Venezuelan artist Jonidel Mendoza’s exhibition titles read like meditative lines in a poem. The ephemeral and contemplative qualities of his oeuvre presented in his first Manila exhibition at Galleria Duemila appeal to our visceral senses conjuring an inquisitive desire to touch, feel, listen, and enter into the totality of each mixed media painting and sculptural installation. Upon encountering the artworks, one may feel an impulse to interact with them. Physically move from one side to the other, wander with one’s eyes in motions that reveal multidimensional layers of aesthetic and social meaning. Discoveries into the artist’s psyche and perhaps one’s own traverse existential questions of one’s being; purpose.
Angel Velasco Shaw
