Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Makati City

ABOUT THE WORK

Shaped like paintings found in churches and cathedral, whose curving lines meet at an apex, this painting by JC Jacinto is a paean to ordinary life. In this work, a figure, whose gender is ambiguous, sits on a naked mattress. It is about to undergo a radical transformation, with the smoldering of the skin and the explosion of the head in smoke. The work features a disconcerting scene; not only because of the subject matter, but because of the naturalness of the figure’s stance as it accepts its fate, as though it had been waiting for it for the longest time. Its power lies on how the viewer is made witness to a metamorphosis of an individual transpiring within the privacy of a room