"To those who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history,  the past does not matter - only the present, the awareness of the deadening rot which surrounds and suffocates us, and what we must do to vanquish it."  - F. Sionil Jose,  Filipino Author,  Ermita

TRAIDOR!,  explores the irony in the struggle to present artwork about a history of exploitation while immersed in a commodified world. Traidor is a Spanish word for traitor and this exhibition explores the relationship of art and commodity. The exhibition gets beneath the surfaces to discover material processes that would betray the seductive world of objects, similar to Theodore Adorno's concept of negative dialectics, a solution to a mindless consumption dominated by society.  Socio-Realism, rejection of power, anarchy, pain and nihilism are some of the issues that are spread on canvas, showing textures of decay and beauty.  Marcius Noceda's paintings particularly dwells on the phenomenon of the "Makapili", traitors and conspirators who wore masks during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II.  This exhibition explores the seduction of material objects, annihilation of a sabotaged history and the breath of survival.