Curatorial Notes

Imelda Cajipe Endaya exhibits a selection from a portfolio of around three hundred prints. Letting one see the length, breadth, and depth of her printmaking practice and the utter devotion needed for such.

The selection includes a substantial range of techniques and concerns, presenting at the same time both her formal explorations and activist engagements. It features works made through a mix of etching, collagraphy, aquatint, silkscreen, and dye-resist processes; vivid abstract compositions that play with color, shape, and cultural motifs along with cerebral works that reflect on Filipino identity and history.

–Carla Gamalinda

About the Artist

Imelda Cajipe Endaya’s (b. 1949) artistic career has been devoted to contemporary social issues from the viewpoint of women empowerment. Her mixed media paintings and installations are richly colored and textured with crochet, laces, textiles, window, flatiron,suitcases, papier-mâché craft, and found objects from home and popular culture. In so doing she developed a visual language that is distinctly womanly and Filipino.

Prints occupy a veritable space within Imelda Cajipe Endaya’s creative oeuvre, with close to three hundred in her inventory, and counting. Art Fair Philippines 2026 is pleased to present an overview of Cajipe Endaya’s printmaking through the years.

Credits to Silverlens Gallery and Lara Acuin