Julius Redillas

I mimic documented subjects. I initially played on the idea of documenting documented things using references such as books, periodicals, torn pages from magazines, and my favorite, Googled images. Everywhere, we see things getting fixed and people being saved. I emphasize a world where everyone wants to be involved in the whole process, and its manipulated realism and truths. This is where the phantasmagoric theme in my works comes in with a consciousness, that is, to skin the subject devoid of any precursory judgment.
I see my works as a collective depiction of a society that is voyeuristic and exploitative. This obsession of representing truth as I see it then defying it with a tinge of playfulness guides my work. Like an inquisitive stalker studying its prey, I scrutinize my subjects, get familiar and intimate with them, but never involved—very much like a god. I try not to cross that line of involvement as I fossilize a subject into an image embellished with an outré panache or two but still bereft of any pompous, extravagant histrionics.
With the fast-paced technological and politico-economic strata as playground, I explore the deconstruction of images with various cosmetic abscesses, playing with archetypes and resisting t...

2015
‘Someone Else’, Art Informal, Mandaluyong City, Philippines

2014
'Duping Delight' , West Gallery, Quezon City Philipines
'RADIATION - The Art Center, Bangkok Thailand
‘I’ve Created a Monster’, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines

2013
‘Dark Side of the Sun’, Art Informal, Mandaluyong City, Philippines
‘Pagan Formula’, Light and Space Contemporary, 2014
‘None of the Above, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
‘Duping Delight’, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
‘Radiation, Art Center Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
‘I’ve Created a Monster’, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines