April 24 marks the opening of Tatong Recheta Torres' sophomore offering "Spotlight Dilemma," an exhibition of his works in oil. In no way sophomoric and now injected with renewed vigor that leans toward the fantastic, his second show sheds none of the quiet enigma that has dominated "Dominion," his previous one.

Keeping narrative at the service of painting, Torres portrays a modest parable in the morbid tradition of fairy tales: The insatiable Supreme Collector now desires to also collect attention, and has found reason to seize it from The Fairest of Them All. But being an albino whose eyes cannot withstand brightness, how can she struggle with being in the spotlight? This constitutes the main story of "Spotlight Dilemma," which splinters into subplots fabricated by the artist's labyrinthine imagination, and further textually fleshed out by Angelo V. Suarez in accompanying vignettes of printed story.

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