Louie Cordero, lives and works in Manila, Philippines
Visual overload as a metaphor for the postmodern condition of information bombardment and loss of ontological shape is characteristic of Louie Cordero's work, with which the densely layered pictorial space further points to the palimpsest of foreign colonial cultures present within the Filipino psyche in conflict over its constitution. Thus, a body politic consumed with violence and absurdity betrays the artifice of beauty and nobility commonly attributed to the Filipino subject, which becomes Cordero's aesthetic and ethical compass between the east and the west, history and contemporary society, high and low cultures, along with the war pitting good against evil.
Cordero is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines, and was a resident artist in the Big Sky Mind art foundation residency program from 2002 to 2004. In 2003, he had a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in the United States. Cordero is a recipient of numerous awards including the Ateneo Art Award in 2004, and the Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2006.