Jed Gregorio, Godhood, 2020, Video, Running Time 5min 35secs

Jed Gregorio (b. 1990) is a Filipino artist based in Manila, Philippines. His artistic practice encompasses photography, filmmaking, installation, and performance. His first solo exhibition "New Frontiers in the Evolution of the Blood of the Immortal Poets" in 2019 was held in First United, originally the Edificio Luis Perez Samanillo, a pre-war Art Deco building in Escolta Manila, recognized as an important cultural property by the National Historical Commission. The exhibition is at the heart of a quasi-narrative, world-building project that has unfolded over multiple other exhibitions, screenings, and printed matter, both predating and succeeding the Escolta show. The final juncture in the "Immortal Poets" body of work is the multi-iterative piece titled "Godhood", recently shown in the Kyoto City University of Arts in Kyoto, Japan. Gregorio’s current project-in-progress “Frat” was introduced in the tail-end of 2020, with “Act 1: Kristo Disco” presented in Modeka, and “Act 2: Monochrome One” in Altro Mondo. Similarly, "Frat" is envisioned as a long-term project spanning multiple platforms, exhibitions, and diffusions. 

A line from Godhood resonates with Joan Didion’s Goodbye to All That. It says, “If he is young, the world is whirling out of reach.”