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Alter/(n)ations: the book |
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Imelda Cajipe Endaya’s life work the past 30 years has been consistently clustered along the themes of cultural identity, gender, race, nation, migration, displacement, and globalization from the distinct point of an enlightened Filipina visual artist. This Filipina artist now living in New York was awarded the Centennial Honors for the Arts by the Republic of the Philippines in 1999, an honor for cultural heroes in her country of origin. She has gained recognition in the Asia-Pacific contemporary art world for the distinct womanly visual language and statements in her art, as well as cultural leadership in women’s advocacy, and Third World people’s advancement. Her works have been extensively exhibited internationally. |
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A Woman Steps out of her Window |
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by Flaudette May Datuin, Ph. D. Back in the early 1980s, Imelda Cajipe Endaya painted a canvas series called Woman and Windows, where she was "simply imaging myself, " she recalls in a keynote address for an international conference on women artists in 1999, "as wife and mother isolated in her home." She describes the women she depicted in that series as "often peering from behind windows, expressive of the subjugated role they played. Nude figures looming within exchangeable planes of indoor and outdoor spaces expressed a longing for freedom and wholeness." |
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