As Judas Receives the Bread from Christ a Small Black Devil is Shown Entering His Mouth
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Few moments provoke artistic creation like tragedy. The 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume was one of the first to point this out, writing that “nothing can furnish to the poet a variety of scenes and incidents and sentiments, except distress, terror, or anxiety.” Alert to the multiple forces that have reduced millions of Filipinos to desperate states of poverty, Manila-born interdisciplinary artist Leslie de Chavez reflected upon the troubled aftermath of colonialism, where unrestrained power and corruption have exacerbated the country’s already tenuous predicament.