A Solo Exhibition of Rare and Limited Prints
July 23 to August 12, 2022
Opening
July 23, Saturday | 4 PM
Imahica Art
2A Lee Gardens, Lee Street, Wack-Wack, Mandaluyong City
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Many are unaware of Imelda Cajipe Endaya’s hidden facet and obscure passions: her penchant for abstraction and the persevering, fastidious, and exacting printmaker in her.
Deeply buried within her sophisticated, elegant, and contemporary abstract style and enveloped by her prints’ subdued, tasteful color sense, lies the Filipino soul. Her indefatigable quest to search for the Filipino identity is expressed in her cornucopia of ubiquitous objects found and seen in the day-to-day life of Filipinos. She immortalizes everyday objects by using the painstaking and meticulous process of printmaking while combining complex and sophisticated printmaking techniques such as etching, aquatint, and collagraph.
These abstracted mementos of Cajipe Endaya are her visual artifacts embodying the myriad forgotten and denied historical and cultural memories etched in the Filipino soul. This soul has gone through the many painful transitions in our history from the pre-colonial, colonial, pre-war, and post-war eras up to the present. Like the tin cans that are crushed and recycled, the Filipino soul continues its saga to find itself, to find new meaning, and evolve in this challenging, consumerist, and confusing digital 21st century. Cajipe Endaya’s pursuit of truth and love for Philippine history becomes all the more crucial and significant amidst social media, fake news, and the current crusade for historical denialism.
(by Christine Carlos)
For more information, please contact Imahica Art at (+63) 917 894 5646 or (+63) 2 7622 4008 or email thegallery@imahica.art.
