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How Gianne Encarnacion traces the worlds within
By The Cartellino Team
In the past year, the artist and illustrator’s works have come to life as immersive dioramas, joining Cartellino…

Once/Is A Girl: On Marionne Contreras’ Poetry has left me 
By Zea Asis

Hauntingly beautiful: Manifesting queer beauty through reclaimed narratives in Zeus Bascon’s Multong Bakla
By Pao Vergara
Artists across genres in the Philippines and the diaspora in Canada combined poetry, dance, audio-visual production…

Refuge in the Art of Nicole Tee
By Mara Fabella
"Are we shaped by the spaces around us, or are our spaces extensions of our innermost selves?"

The Visceral Mindscapes of Tarzeer Pictures’ Hemispheres
By Sean Carballo
"Throughout the show, a range of elements attempt to provide structure and shelter for the mind. Light crackles and…

Stitching Her Own Image: On Maricar Tolentino’s Sipat
By Zea Asis

Hannah Nantes on the home and its (dis)contents
By The Cartellino Team
Her Cartellino solo release Garden of Lost Snails continues until October 18.

Looking back at Angkor Photo Workshops
By Lk Rigor
As deadlines approached for the next Angkor Photo Festival and Workshops, Lk Rigor joins Angkor Photo alumni JL Javier, James Lontoc, Geela Garcia,…

A city that kills in Mike Olea’s Kanayunan Patungong Kalunsuran
By Chesca Santiago
Mike Olea’s photographs trace killing as violence encoded in the daily life of the urban poor.

What's in a gesture?
By Sean Carballo
"To gesture, on the one hand, is to signify an artistic mark. But, on the other, it is an intuitive language beyond—or before—language,…

Nina Garibay and the art of piecing a presence together
By The Cartellino Team
Her Cartellino Solo Release, I’m…

Allan Balisi’s Waiting Games
By Sean Carballo
"[T]here’s a romantic tinge to the practice of waiting, an ache that renders us momentarily porous, submersible."

A wild plant grows through the concrete pavement
By Pao Vergara
Punk lives on in unexpected spaces through artists A.lien (Neil Arvin Javier) and Mark Tandoyog.

The tenor of sound practice in Manila
By Chesca Santiago
A conversation with Dayang Yraola on the labels, ecologies, and shifts of sound.

The non-brutal submissions in Archie Geotina’s Tropikal Brutalism
By Lk Rigor

Data Dump: AI and Abstraction in Wataru Sakuma’s Hypercomplex
By Sean Carballo
Across Sakuma’s paper works in Hypercomplex

Natures of Curation: A Conversation with Gian Carlo Delgado
By Sean Carballo
In the Realm of Nature grappled with our ideas about nature, inviting…

 Time as truthsayer and shaper: Seventy Years Later
By Nikki Ignacio
Both guided by the notion that people are “intermediaries and creators of destiny”, Prado and Bumanlag thread moments real and surreal…

Dreaming and Beyond: Jun Impas’ Pangandoy
By Gwen Bautista
“From festivals to the stillness of a normal weekday, his paintings orient us to see the peripheries.” 

Tracing the Ant: Curator’s Talk with Mayumi Hirano
By Lk Rigor
In her second Curator's Talk, writer Lk Rigor speaks with Mayumi Hirano about the challenges and charms of curating—tracing the ant, so to speak,…

Upon A Bed of Gravel: A Journey Through Nona Garcia’s Overland
By Mara Fabella
What does it mean to actually “be” in a place—to be present in all its qualities, in what makes it unique? Reviewing Nona Garcia’s…