This is the catalogue for the dual exhibition of two Filipino artists Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo Jr. at NUS Museum Singapore from June 2012 to January 2013.

'Combining Jose Rizal's "Quiapo Fair" (first published 1891) and artworks produced by artists Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo Jr., the exhibition traces the life-worlds of Plaza Miranda, which fronts the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church), one of the main churches of the City of Manila. Considering how Plaza Miranda acts as a site for numerous interests, ranging from political and cultural discourse to established traditions of fortune telling, the exhibition connects both artists and their materials to not just as something being observed, but also to the conditions of their observations, where the very act of observation becomes an end that at once implicates but also detaches. By some oblique process, presence also becomes semblance, leading to question, if any act of observation can ever remain unmediated. ' - from museum's website.

While Habulan's works draw onto the societal dimensions of the plaza, Esquillo takes the site as a place which expresses overwhelming power and affirms a sense of the personal indubitable in its authenticity. Curator Shabbir Hussain Mustafa introduces a chapter from Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo to accompany the exhibition.

Includes artist's biographies.