Photograph of a detail of Roberto Chabet's House Painting, showing two black squash balls in between two plywood shelves, a nod to Jasper Johns' Painting with Two Balls.

The work is part of a set of House Paintings, which were first exhibited in 1986 at Finale Art File, Sunvar Plaza, Manila. It is the second in Chabet's trilogy of works that utilise plywood as a material for painting. A translation of the basic schematic for a house, the work first began as a sketch for a poster for Filipino architect Leandro Locsin. 

This photograph shows the reconstructed version of the work from the exhibition, 'To Be Continued,' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore - La Salle College of the Arts from 13 January - 11 February 2011. The work was also included in the same exhibition at Osage Kwun Tong in Hong Kong from 12 August - 21 September 2011.

'To Be Continued' is a landmark survey exhibition of Chabet’s plywood works from 1984 to the present. In these works, he utilises his signature material – store-bought plywood boards. It is a material which has 'become not only the surface and support of his paintings and installations, but to a large extent its subject matter and content.'

The exhibition gathers for the first time significant works, including the seminal 1980s trilogy Russian Paintings, House Paintings, and Cargo and Decoy. Highlighting process and the provisional aspect of the material, it is reflective of Chabet’s practice, which gives precedence to the fugitive and contingent nature of art.

The exhibition is part of 'Roberto Chabet: Fifty Years,' a year-long series of exhibitions organised by King Kong Art Projects Unlimited in various venues in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Manila from 2011 - 2012.