J. or A Remembrance of Things To Come

Victor’s artwork in 2018 were first seen in singapore during a group exhibition by Osage Gallery of Filipino artists entitled held at the now defunct Old School in Mt. Sophia Road, Singapore.  He had created a graffiti work that was central to a huge room and towered above smaller walls dotted along its left and right panels.  It was fantastical, imaginary and entitled Manifesto Destino Bastardos. It left with an impression of how distinctive his works were. Not only were they potent, they completely veered the viewer from one’s own world, exuding a a sense of alienation, strangely combined by transformed energy. Futura Manila,

Three years later, Artesan invited Victor for a residency stint at Artesan’s Bukit Timah studio. It was arranged to line the gallery walls with full lengths of canvas simulating bare naked walls. There he created yet another world of the strange and the unknown... losing himself…