A collaboration between three renowned Filipino artists, Signs Fiction delivers an exquisite experience of witnessing the artistic boundaries these artists continue to explore through their licensed alternative movie posters, helming from their experiences working with major film studios worldwide.

A celebration of Filipino talent and pop culture, Vincent Aseo, Raf Banzuela, and Tof Zapanta’s exhibition offers meticulously crafted posters, drawing inspiration from acclaimed and well-loved movies from around the world.

Phenomenal illustrators, Aseo and Banzuela, have worked on licensed alternative movie posters for top film studios around the world namely Disney, Marvel, Sony, Lucasfilm, DC, and more. They are currently working with Poster Posse which is a creative agency that handles their alternative movie poster projects. Their international fan base surpasses their local one, which is a key reason for the creation and ongoing touring of these shows across the Philippines, ensuring accessibility for all.

Meanwhile, Zapanta, a seasoned illustrator, has worked with publications around the world such as Discovery Channel Magazine (US), Nylon (Singapore), Esquire (Singapore), Dynamic Business Magazine (UK), John Hopkins Health Review (US), Men’s Health (Australia), and Rogue Magazine (PH), among others, through illustration agency The Illustration Room in Australia. His graphic work has always been heavily influenced by Science Fiction imagery and style, dating back to digital works he created for Curioos, an art print company from New York that featured his work as part of their artist series collections back in 2014. This influence is from his love of science fiction movies, and retro sci-fi imagery, or “how the future looked like to people from the past,” which he achieves with the combination of composition, colors, and textures that resemble the sci-fi pocket book covers of the 50s, merged with the contemporary geometric minimalism of recent years.

The three of them have worked together in the past, as part of the core group working on Zapanta’s then-annual art festival project, “Bloom,” so it was organic, the way they came together again to start this project.

The exhibition features more than 30 large format artist proofs of licensed work, and private commission posters. These artworks are high-quality Silkscreen prints on specialty paper, and Giclée Archival prints on Hahnemüle Photo Rag Paper signed and numbered collectors’ items.