Jel Suarez is self-taught artist based between Manila and Bacolod, mostly practicing collage-making. She was granted artist residency at Rimbun Dahan (Malaysia) in 2017, and invited to Larga Artist Residency (Philippines) in 2019. She has shown her works in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. Recent exhibitions include small bones, holding a mountain at West Gallery (2020), A will for prolific disclosures at The Drawing Room Gallery (2020), and her participation at ALT Philippines through MO_Space Gallery (2020). Her solo exhibitions with MO_Space Gallery (2019) and West Gallery (2018 & 2020) were consecutively shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards, where she became the first recipient of the Italian Embassy’s Purchase Prize.

Box 03 (To my mother)

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