Corinne de San Jose

Bio

Corinne De San Jose (b. 1977, Bacolod) is an interdisciplinary media artist based in the Philippines. Her works range from printmaking and video art to sculptures and sound installations, reflecting complex systems that interact among these different forms. They deal with the different processes between materiality and the inherent performativity to explore other possibilities of perceiving her own environment within and around.

De San Jose started her practice as a professional sound engineer eventually becoming an award-winning sound designer for movies, collaborating with Filipino directors including Lav Diaz, Erik Matti, and Raya Martin. Her work in the film industry has led to De San Jose’s early visual practice in photography, where she captures inanimate objects and landscapes as dynamic characters in visual narratives. She has also worked on “camera-less photographs” by directly exposing filmic materials to different ecological surroundings, creating elemental works that reveal both intrinsic and observational qualities. Her recent work involves the use of outmoded forms of communication (such as early film/animation devices, alternative photographic processes, radios, etc.) juxtaposing them with current and imagined technologies, to create new systems of storytelling.

The repetitive nature of De San Jose’s documentations of her own personal interests, mainly revolving around the female body and her gaze, reveal other scopes of identity such as her own domesticity and habitation within the nature of systemic social values in her own culture. She is currently researching on the histories of the female narrative, particularly within anthropological mysticism and the early Filipino movies.

De San Jose has shown her work in solo and group shows in the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Paris. She is currently represented by Silverlens Galleries in Manila.

Corinne De San Jose (b. 1977, Bacolod) is an interdisciplinary media artist based in the Philippines. Her works range from printmaking and video art to sculptures and sound installations, reflecting complex systems that interact among these different forms. They deal with the different processes between materiality and the inherent performativity to explore other possibilities of perceiving her own environment within and around.

De San Jose started her practice as a professional sound engineer eventually becoming an award-winning sound designer for movies, collaborating with Filipino directors including Lav Diaz, Erik Matti, and Raya Martin. Her work in the film industry has led to De San Jose’s early visual practice in photography, where she captures inanimate objects and landscapes as dynamic characters in visual narratives. She has also worked on “camera-less photographs” by directly exposing filmic materials to different ecological surroundings, creating elemental works that reveal both intrinsic and observational qualities. Her recent work involves the use of outmoded forms of communication (such as early film/animation devices, alternative photographic processes, radios, etc.) juxtaposing them with current and imagined technologies, to create new systems of storytelling.

The repetitive nature of De San Jose’s documentations of her own personal interests, mainly revolving around the female body and her gaze, reveal other scopes of identity such as her own domesticity and habitation within the nature of systemic social values in her own culture. She is currently researching on the histories of the female narrative, particularly within anthropological mysticism and the early Filipino movies.

De San Jose has shown her work in solo and group shows in the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Paris. She is currently represented by Silverlens Galleries in Manila.

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2022
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cyanotype and organic chemicals on watercolor paper
47.74h x 31.10w in • 121.25h x 79w cm (unframed)
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Da Capo
2022
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aluminum metal plate, contact microphone, contact speaker, phono pre-amp, audio mixer, audio loop of vocal recording, vinyl record, turntable, subwoofer, 8mm film, projector, guitar effects pedals, audio cables
variable size
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59.59
2019
647
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118 transistor radios, 2 fm transmitters broadcasting, 2 9-hour loop of field recordings
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Vase Without Daisies and Poppies
2012
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archival inkjet print
16h x 20w in • 40.64h x 50.80w cm
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1440 in 24
2009
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1440 pieces, archival inkjet prints
8.3h x 5.7w cm (each)
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The Shore is Parchment #3
2021
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cyanotype
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56 Days
2020
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56 cyanotype prints on cold press watercolor paper, (varying paper grades 200-300gsm)
56.69h x 93.90w in • 144h x 238.50w cm (framed)
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Slide 10
2017
399
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metal leaf on inkjet print on Tecco canvas
24h x 36w in • 60.96h x 91.44w cm
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Landscape (Daytime) option 1 - Water
2015
397
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inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo rag® Bright White 310 gsm paper
30h x 60w in • 76.20h x 152.40w cm
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Vanitas (Omnibus) Versions 1 to 25
2015
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inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo rag® Bright White 310 gsm paper
12h x 16w in • 30.5h x 40.6w cm (each)
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Untitled A
2015
646
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video
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New Pair 03
2013
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archival inkjet print and origami
39.76h x 39.76w x 2.99d in • 101h x 101w x 7.60d cm
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Selected Exhibitions

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