Stigma

Stigma I and Stigma II were announced for You Are Here at Vinyl on Vinyl in Manila. The opening was scheduled for 20 June 2015, with Ryan and Garovs as curators. Both paintings measure 65 × 50 cm.

In August 2015, CRAJES described Stigma III as another piece in the Stigma series and connected it to the earlier Manila paintings. The 110 × 85 cm canvas was announced for Pablo Galleries’ tenth-anniversary painting exhibition, scheduled for 12–26 September 2015.

Compare the red ground of Stigma I with the cooler turquoise of Stigma II. In Stigma III, a patterned circular screen occupies much of the lower composition, while the face and the marks on the skin remain visible above it.