Patricia Perez Eustaquio (b. 1977) is based in Manila who works with shadows, fragments, discards, and detritus, taking on such marginalized themes in a language that is at once evocative and familiar. She works in a variety of media, exploring materials through painting, drawing, and installation. She fashions sculpture from fabric, shrouding objects with crochet or silk treated with resin and then removes the object allowing the fabric to retain the folds and drapes. The resulting ghost (-piano, -chair, -birdcage) examines ideas of memory and perception.

Her similar approach to painting translates the rigid pictorial square to a fragmented object, where its bounding frame is removed or cut away, resulting into ornately shaped canvases haunted by imagery of discards and detritus, wilted blooms and carcasses.

Eustaquio’s work recalls the domestic as well as perhaps the psychic lives of objects by the repeated rehashing of memory where the familiar or the banal takes on a new substance, where the material and the immaterial coexist. She has been the recipient of awards for emerging artists, and of artists’ residency grants such as Art Omi in New York. She has had solo shows in Manila, Taiwan, Singapore, and New York, and has been part of several, notable group exhibitions including shows at the Hong Kong Art Centre (HKAC) and the Singapore Art Museum.  Her work recently featured in The Vexed Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art & Design in Manila.

In 2016, she was commissioned to work on a site-specific installation at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The exhibit ran from 23 June to 22 September.