Interplay of the artificial and the organic

In the exhibit Pierce the Membrane>>>Anti Spiral, Ana Verayo invites viewers into a world where artificial materials behave with organic unpredictability. Working primarily with industrial paint, she explores how form emerges through controlled disorder: an interplay of viscosity, gravity and time.

Verayo’s process resists the notion of total control. She allows materials to perform, to move, to respond, highlighting the agency of matter itself. Layers are applied and stressed at different rates, leading to subtle fractures, tensions, and flows that expose the hidden logic of their creation. What results is a kind of morphogenesis, where new visual worlds unfold from the unpredictable behavior of paint on the surface.

Based in Metro Manila, Verayo is a multimedia artist who earned her BFA from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her practice often draws from both natural and artificial landscapes, using shifts in time, movement, and repetition to explore paradoxes within pattern and abstraction. In this latest body of work, she continues to blur the boundary between the deliberate and the accidental, piercing the membrane between material and meaning, chaos and order.

Pierce the Membrane>>>Anti Spiral is on view until 5 July at Altro Mondo Creative Space, located on 1159 Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City.