The Cultural Center of the Philippines is proud to present Pagtutol at Pag-asa, a retrospective exhibition of artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya. Initially programmed for 2020, the exhibit has been two years in the making and have its opening reception on 3 September, at the CCP’s Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery).
Imelda Cajipe Endaya: Pagtutol at Pag-asa brings together over two hundred artworks and archival materials at the CCP’s Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery), adjacent hallways and virtual platforms surveying Imelda Cajipe Endaya’s extensive practice in printmaking, painting, collage, and installation art from the 1960s to the present. Imelda Cajipe Endaya: Pagtutol at Pag-asa is the first full-scale retrospective of her significant practice as an artist and the exceptional engagements she nurtured as part of her artmaking.
Imelda Cajipe Endaya (b. Manila, 1949) is an artist whose work is distinguished by artistic research and conversation across forms and materials. Sustaining a practice that is “firmly situated within the coordinates of Philippine society and history,” she has also gained recognition in the Asia-Pacific for a singular Filipina visual language that is focused on the possibilities of feminist art. Committed to historical truth, attentive as much to spiritual devotion as to everyday life, and invested as much in the present as in the future, she is founding president of Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan (KASIBULAN), a feminist arts organization active since 1987, and founder of Pananaw, the first publication of its kind on Philippine art. Cajipe Endaya is also a widely-published curator, writer, and cultural worker.
Imelda Cajipe Endaya: Pagtutol at Pag-asa is co-curated by Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera. CCP will be hosting monthly public programs until November 2022, which will be held onsite and streamed online. An off-site exhibition, Imelda Cajipe Endaya: Windows To An Archive, will also be presented at the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings from 9 September to 2 December 2022, in partnership with the Ateneo Art Gallery.
