Miljohn Ruperto
Miljohn Ruperto (b. 1971, Philippines) is a Los Angeles-based visual artist. Education Ruperto received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Work Ruperto's work has been described as "speculat ngon the nature of assumed facts and construction of truth," and utilizing "an intriguing play between an apparent sense of control, or purpose, and the actual lack of it." His work "challenges fixed conceptions of truth and history, and instead speaks of an indeterminacy and subjectivity of experience that renders truth and fiction near indistinguishable." In 2012, the Whitney Biennial featured Ruperto's "Voynich Botanical Studies." The work, a series of photographs of imaginary plants based on illustrations from the Voynich Manuscript, is an ongoing collaboration with Danish artist Ulrik Heltoft. Ruperto and Heltoft "created he imageswith 3-D modeling software that blends found images and textures int ...
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