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Flux and Process with Antoni Muntadas
By Sean Carballo
Following his review of the artist's' Exercises on Past and Present Memories, Sean Carballo and Antoni Muntadas sit down to reflect on the…

Finding the Filipino in Living Pictures
By Lk Rigor
Decribed as “the world’s first-ever survey of photography's histories across Southeast Asia”, ‘Living Pictures’ offers…

Material Histories in Muntadas: Exercises on Past and Present Memories
By Sean Carballo
"Resulting from a period of archival research after the artist first visited the country in 2019, Antoni Muntadas’s…

Embodied epics: The body and its memories in Julie Lluch’s Chronicles on Skin
By The Cartellino Team
In a time where the transmission of stories faces revision, miscommunication, erasure, and a host of other issues,…

Participating in the anti-monument in You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
By Corinne Fernandez Garcia
"The anti-monument is understated. It listens to the land and it listens to the people, creating space for long-marginalized histories and alterities…

A Paradise Ago: Pinky Ibarra Urmaza's Ghost Ode to the Library
By Sean Carballo
"What does an artwork know? What does it withhold from the viewer? And how does one, finally, respond to its enigmas?"

The building blocks of Baraks: Artists at the heart of the collective/space
By Lk Rigor
“Fundamentally, artists are at the heart of this collective/space, so we understand the economics of how it is…

Reflecting Legacies: The Glass Art of Anna Orlina
By Mara Fabella
Between carrying her family's legacy and forging her own artistic path, Anna Orlina's practice is one of harmony and play. 

Tactile trajectories: The curatorial life with Pristine de Leon
By Sean Carballo
"Archive here is not personal, but intimate; it keeps the world close by. The hand is only one among many hands, open to being touched."

Beyond the line: A profile on Eugenia Alcaide
By Corinne Fernandez Garcia
“It is this emotion that compels, that makes art relatable, that turns a personal image universal.”

Galleries take a youthful approach to art at the Xavier Art Fest 2023
By Pao Vergara
Resuming its in-person format, the Xavier Art Fest continues its mission to make art less intimidating.

Reading Gale Encarnacion’s Pushkin Roberts Anthology
By Mara Fabella
"I found myself looking at each work in its entirety before checking their titles, as each literary reference entailed…

Oh, for art’s sake! The No Name Show is back
By Pao Vergara
In The No Name Show 2.0, Gravity Art Space puts art-for-pleasure center stage

Molding, meaning, making: How Tahanan Pottery is building a communal home for contemporary ceramic pottery
By Nikki Ignacio
“Clay is the only material that replies to your touch. When you poke it and pull it, that’s actually you,…

Kanpeki: The Voice of Independent Philippine Artists Heard in Kyoto
By Koki Lxx
Koki Lxx visits Kyoto’s Voice Gallery, where curator Matsuo Megumi has teamed up with Nano to survey the state of independent art-making in the…

An art of memory in crisis
By Sean Carballo
"In these works, looking is no ambiguous act. To look — clearly and intentionally — lands as a corrective…

Jana Benitez answers and shares the call of the wild
By Pao Vergara
With a wide range of styles following her childhood entry into the art world, the painter has since touched upon something…

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…