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Imelda Cajipe Endaya Painter, printmaker, Installation artist from the Philippines, b. 1949

Major Works

As a printmaker, she won recognition for her experimentation with technique and her exploration of Filipino visual imagery. From 1976 to 1970, she produced a series of prints collectively entitled Mga Ninuno (Ancestors), which brought together images from 19th century engravings and novenas, the Boxer Codex, and Damian Domingo albums. Done in etching, collagraphy and serigraphy, these were interplayed in an abstract order, leading to the issue f national identity. In 1981, she used women and windows as motifs for social issues such as labor export and Third World cultural domination. In 1982, she began to take a feminist direction, focusing on the plight of the Filipina in her various contemporary roles. Some of these works are Life is a Mystical Comicbook (1981), Totoy’s Question (!981), Emancipation of Gloriana (1982). Cajipe Endaya’s work, which often alludes to events and conditions of her country, like militarization, struggle for land, and colonial mentality, conveys the turmoil and passion accompanying change. She incorporated bamboo mat windows onto her canvases. She uses various materials and symbolic elements, indigenous and folk, to convey textures and color of Philippine culture. She collages them with crocheted laces, denims, and local textiles, endowing them with familiar immediacy. Some of these works are: Momoy’s Window (1983), Sa Lupang A Nation’s Passion (1983), In the Land of Gologotha (1984), Mother, Daughter, Freedom is Yours, Too (1985), and Veronica’s Plea (1988) In 1995 to 1996, she made a series of installations on the theme of the Filipina Domestic Helper. “ Filipina: DH” was an installation of battered suitcases,  plasterbonded textile sculpture, projected images, text, sound, textured domestic artifacts interspersed with mementos of family and religious devotion. Reference: 1994: Alice Guillermo, “ Imelda Cajipe Endaya,” in Nicanor G. Tiongson (ed), Cultural Center of the Philippines, CCP Encyclopedia of Art. 2000: Alice Guillermo, An Enlightened Perspective, Asian Art News, Hong Kong,Jan/Feb, pp. 61-65