Rodel Tapaya Exhibition: Urban Labyrinth

Rodel Tapaya Exhibition: Urban Labyrinth was a 2018 presentation at Ayala Museum that gathered ten new paintings in which Tapaya turns Manila’s sprawl into a modern folktale. Crowded shanties, markets, and billboards collide with aswang and with fables like The Monkey and the Turtle, so that migration, greed, and survival read as shared myths rather than private news. Within the museum’s wider work of shaping Philippine memory, the show framed the city as a maze where old stories still name contemporary fears and hopes.