Corinne de San Jose
Bio
Corinne De San Jose (b. 1977, Bacolod, Philippines; lives and works in Manila, Philippines) is an interdisciplinary media artist and award-winning sound designer based in the Philippines. Her practice encompasses a diverse array of mediums, spanning printmaking, video, sculpture, and sound installation. Her works delve into the interplay between materiality and inherent performativity to explore alternative possibilities of perceiving her own environment, both within and beyond its immediate boundaries.
De San Jose’s collaborations with acclaimed Filipino directors like Lav Diaz, Erik Matti, and Raya Martin spurred her initial foray into visual storytelling through photography, animating still subjects like landscapes and objects. Expanding her artistic horizons, she worked on “camera-less photographs,” exposing film to diverse ecological settings, revealing inherent and observed traits.
Her recent work merges antiquated communication tools with contemporary and speculative technologies, crafting innovative narrative frameworks that intertwine past and future. Much of her documentation centers around the female body and her gaze, revealing her own domesticity and habitation within the nature of systemic social values of her own culture.
De San Jose has shown her work in solo and group shows in the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Paris, and New York.
Selected Works
Selected Works
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Press
- The Tenacity of Sound: Artists working with sound in the Philippines
- Meet sound designer Corinne de San Jose
- Asian Cultural Council: 2023 Grantee Announcement
- Reparative Rememberings: Corinne de San Jose Reincarnates a Lost Film
- This show brings to life the lost ‘Dalagang Bukid,’ the first Filipino-made film
- See How Artists Construct and Deconstruct Spaces In This Gallery Show
- Corinne De San Jose Made Art by Repeating Herself
- Picture Roundup: Paris Photo 2013
- Corinne de San Jose imitates life in photography