Eduardo Joaquin

5/5-7/27 Floor 1, room 3

My name is Eduardo Joaquin. I was born in the Philippines and moved to Hawai‘i with my family when I was seven years old. I am primarily a painter, and my work centers on the idea of home. The objects I paint appear familiar and solid, yet they resist being fully located in one time or place. They function less as faithful representations and more as echoes. Objects become copies shaped by memory, distance, and reconstruction. In this way, the idea of home becomes unstable, not a fixed origin to return to but something in flux. My work reexamines Western painting traditions, such as trompe l’oeil, using its conventions of image-making not to convince but to disrupt. Painting becomes a ritual for moving through distance and time, allowing me to exist in all the spaces I have occupied at once.