(b. 2004) is a process-based, interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, and painting. His practice examines movement as a trinity: mobility, transport, and circulation being political structures that shape everyday life. Across these mediums, de Zulueta treats time as his primary material, embedded in accumulation and duration. He uses petrochemical materials as a critical secondary medium — the same chemicals that fuel the process of movement itself and account for what it leaves behind.
He incorporates industrial and blue-collar-like processes, preferring paint rollers, scrapers, spray paint, and sandpaper in order to dehumanize his movement and participate similarly to a machine, such as a road roller and its operator, mirroring how humans are treated as mere objects in the world’s overall circulation.
Raised in Clark, an area shaped by decades of U.S. military presence, his work engages restraint, repetition, scale, and material vulnerability. In 2024, he began exhibiting through the PWU–SFAD x UGATLahi collaborative program and was named the 2023 Outstanding Junior Staff Illustrator by The Philippine Artisan (Technological University of the Philippines).
Image: Danilo de Zulueta, 2025.
Photo credit: Film Development Council of the Philippines.