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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley shares her email correspondence with Manuel Ocampo that led up to his solo exhibition "The Painter's Equipment" (January 2011). The text includes Gina's interview on Manuel's serious engagement with the history of painting and the devices in working out the plethora of 'meanings' present in paintings. Alongside these subjects, he clarifies his position on the market and culture. His vision is further drawn out through a discussion of his current exhibitions and industrious curatorial project, "Bastards of Misrepresentation."

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Kevin Power

Kevin Power wrote a crucial text delineating the climate of artistic practice in Manila through Manuel Ocampo's current curatorial endeavor "Bastards of Misrepresentation." This was originally published as a catalog essay for the first Bastards exhibition "Doing Time On Filipino Time" in Freies Museum Berlin from October 22 to November 21 2010.

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Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art

Carlos Villa recalls growing up in San Francisco, living in the Tenderloin district and his exposure to racism, the influence of Leo Valledor, growing up Filipino in California and the difficulties that accompanied it.

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