In Pangil sa Pakpak, Jeho Bitancor explores the charged space where strength meets fragility. The fang, symbol of aggression, danger, and predation, confronts the wing, long associated with freedom, grace, and transcendence. Through a series of oil paintings, these opposing forces intertwine, creating visual narratives where tension and harmony coexist.

Each work invites viewers to reflect on how power can both protect and destroy, and how beauty can rise even from the shadow of violence. Bitancor’s precise brushwork and layered compositions carry the depth of an artist grounded in Filipino Social Realism, yet open to experimentation across form and medium.

As viewers move through the exhibition, the works shift between confrontation and reconciliation, inviting a slow, deliberate engagement. In this space, the fang and the wing are not locked in battle, but in dialogue, each defining and reshaping the other. The result is an atmosphere both unsettling and contemplative, where the boundaries between predator and prey, oppressor and liberator, dissolve into complex, human truths.

Bitancor’s decades-long practice, shaped by studies at the University of the Philippines, the Art Students League of New York, and New York University, reveals a sustained engagement with the human condition. Here, the symbols of fang and wing become more than objects, they are metaphors for the resilience, contradictions, and aspirations that define our shared experience.

With his works housed in significant public and private collections, Bitancor continues to be recognized as one of the most vital Filipino artists of his generation. This exhibition offers a rare chance to encounter pieces that are certain to become touchstones in contemporary Philippine art.