Nina ricci alagao biography

from beauty queen to visual artist


by Rafa Delfin

*This interview was originally published on March 2010.


NINA RICCI ALAGAO-FLORES represented the Philippines in the Miss Universe 2000 pageant in Cyprus.

Today, she is a mother of two boys and married to actor, dance artist and businessman Michael Flores.

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Nina is also an accomplished painter, having launched her first solo exhibit last December in Makati. For this particular series Nina chose seats as subjects "in her belief that these and people share quite a number of similarities in terms of color, diversity, uniqueness, presence, and personality, making them equally interesting." To Nina, painting seats is much like making portraits.

See her paintings. The title of the exhibit - "Limited Seats Only" - is fluid in the sense that it literally represents a precise number of seats but at the same time sumptuously invites the audience to guess - immeasurably - what kind of subject would be sitting in each seat and how