The exhibition versereverse delves into the laws and principles which governs international peace process talks and its efforts for national socio-economic reforms. Renan Ortiz's recent project evokes where post-colonial history has materialized into a greater impending problem. He investigates the written law as he investigates poetry: both being a compound of words, which are products of, and eventually, the basis of human action and deed.

versereverse is the first exhibition of a program by plantingrice.com entitled SPROUT, a four-part project that explores curatorial contributions to shared but contested artistic communities. It defines the limits of different cultural infrastructures by curating exhibition programs that examine continuous social and artistic production by acknowledging that art production goes beyond the walls of gallery spaces: that it is a continuous process. By featuring emerging artists and those who resist or do not have the benefit of the career-exposure trajectory, SPROUT occupies spaces and identifies the negotiations that mark the visual art climate in Manila.

Renan Ortiz was born in Manila in 1977 and lives in Quezon City. He acquired a BA in Political Science at the University of the Philippines before getting a second degree in Fine Arts, Painting at the same University. In 2007 he received a Sinugdanan grant from the NCCA for his first solo exhibition, “Sandosenang Sarap or the Lies and Farce of Iñigo Ramus and the Rivet Thieves” at West Gallery. He is an artist, curator, and educator and currently holds positions on councils for Philippine visual arts in the country namely NCCA (National Commission for Culture and the Arts) and CAP (Concerned Artists of the Philippines).