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The Joys and Abundance in the Life and Art of Inday Cadapan
By Mara Fabella
"The simplicity in her form and her lack of a formal artistic background had many questioning her skills. But Inday…

Further Conversation with Material: Curator’s Talk with Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera 
By Lk Rigor
Speaking with Lk Rigor, curators Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera go into the intricacies of curating, artmaking, and archiving, and how the team —…

A decade of Jaime Pacena II’s creative practice: There’s art in all the in-betweens
By James Luigi Tana

A Conversation: Brushing histories, carving space
By Lyra Garcellano and Lec Cruz
In reflections on their personal artistic process, the artists invite readers and viewers of art to engage in the active exploration of the past, to…

of forgetting, of remembering
By James Luigi Tana
"Writing has to side with collective truths and it should compel one to interrogate rather than to provide absolute…

Looking through the materiality of memories in Isha Naguiat's Photo of a Photo
By Lk Rigor
"By altering her family photographs physically and chemically, the artist created more distance between her and the…

This is Not MO_Space: Traversing a space of unknowing
By Sean Carballo
"This is Not MO_Space gathers past and present works from 15 artists…

Imaging faith: A look at Lyndon Maglalang's Preparatory Measures
By The Cartellino Team
The collection of acrylic and dry paint compositions continues the documentation of the artist’s journey toward…

Weaving a Legacy: Of Art, Growth, and Community
By Alyssa Selanova
"Now in its fourth year, Tubô Cebu Art Fair continuously echoes and demonstrates Visayas-Mindanao's growing and never-ending hunger for art..."

Fotomoto 22 brings us “Home”
By Marz Aglipay
Fotomoto 22 opens up to more photographers for its second edition themed “Home”.

How memory weaves a thread of justice
By Pao Vergara
In its second iteration in the Ateneo Art Gallery, a collaborative exhibit between researchers, autobiographical subjects, and artmakers puts on a…

Collaging Worlds: The Contemporary Spiritual in Jet B. Leyco’s Ispirituwal Transaction
By Pie Tiausas
"With the collapse of the search for an archaic singular truth then comes the espousal of the contemporary spiritual…

A Red That Runs Deep: Doktor Karayom’s Namatanda
By Mara Fabella
At Artinformal Gallery, Doktor Karayom clads the walls red with tales of old, the stories that bleed.

The Transcendence of Memory: Luis Antonio Santos at MO_Space
By Meg Genuino
Navigating our processes of forgetting and remembering, Luis Antonio Santos uses the land, our environments, as "a…

The contradictions of construction in Vien Valencia's 'Unpainting'
By Shireen Co
"These are the supposed fallout from other projects, material in between, on the floor of a studio, jarring the cycle…

'The absence left the void half full': Works on what we find in nothingness
By Gabrielle Gonzales
Cartellino's first ever physical exhibition, presented at the 2022 Modern and Contemporary Art Festival, features works by Jobert Cruz, Teo Esguerra,…

Discerning Treasure and Wealth in Jandy Carvajal’s Repoussé Artworks
By Mara Fabella
His third exhibit of repoussé works, Ang Ating Mga Kayamanan Sa Bakuran is Jandy Carvajal's inquiry into the alignment of our…

To the fires that never go out: An ode to the myth, method, and madness in Iya Regalario’s Tag-Apoy
By Nikki Ignacio
“Fire is life and death, the beginning and end, constantly burning through the timeline of our national identity…

Manix Abrera’s Tahakin: Pick a path, any path!
By The Cartellino Team

The Gathering Infestation in ND Harn’s Collecting Faults
By Mara Fabella
ND Harn's latest offering at Finale Art File unpack the stashes of thoughts and memories we stow away in the corners of our mind. 

Score the matrix until you cut through: The art of Printmaking for the People
By The Cartellino Team
“Printmaking stands at the front lines of progressive propaganda. It has long been an important part of Philippine…