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          Rodel Tapaya Filipino, Born 1980

          Rodel Tapaya’s alternative forms of understanding time and place refuse to see indigenous epistemologies and storytelling traditions as anachronisms.

          While folklore is often disparaged as a vestige of superstitious thought, Tapaya suggests them as a mode of resistance to the primacy of modern subjectivity and modernist form.“My challenge to myself,” Tapaya has explained “is how to make a huge work complex in composition and detail yet with harmony and unity, inspired by stories of the past”.

          Born in Montalban, the Philippines, outside Manila in 1980, he grew up immersed in the oral and pictorial traditions of his rural environment situated at the periphery of one of the world’s largest urban sprawls.

          As a student at the University of the Philippines, he studied alternative interpretations of supernatural traditions through Damiana Eugenio’s scholarly work. Since then, he devote