BluSkreen Ballroom

Jose Tence Ruiz joined KAISAHAN (Unity) a throng of Filipino Social Realists in the late 1970s and has since then exercised, through a panoply of media, the view that proper art engaged and reflected contemporary milieu. He has done painting sculpture, installation, performance, digital media and worked 20 years as an editorial cartoonist, 7 of which,1988 to 95, were spent at the Singapore Straits Times. During his Singapore sojourn, he joined Artists Village along with Tang Da Wu, Vincent Leow, Zailani Kuning, Amanda Heng, Lee Wen, Ahmad Abu Bakr, to name a few.

His latest Ballrom series depicting the French Cotillion and Marie Antoinette-like damsels reconfigured as a trope for the absurd greed and profligacy practiced among some of the unsavory elites of postcolonial Southeast Asia. In light of the recent collapses in the World Economic Grid, these reprehensible characteristics have proven to be globally pandemic. Such is the early…