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A Portrait of a Portrait Show II
By Mara Fabella

Colors and core memories in Littlespaceboi's art
By The Cartellino Team

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

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?"

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."

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

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…

Two shows bask in clay’s quiet conundrums
By Sean Carballo
Pablo Capati III, Marco Rosario, and Jezzel Wee’s ‘These common, intimate things’, and Jon Pettyjohn’s ‘Steps’,…

First impressions: Inside the OVERINKED Studio
By The Cartellino Team
As part of Prints Made in May 2023, Cartellino met with the members of up-and-coming Quezon City printmaking studio,…

What happens after the dust settles? Stephen Lucio reflects on mortality
By Shireen Co
Dust envelops the sweep of Stephen Lucio’s first solo exhibit. The through line of ‘When Dust Settles’, it follows the artist’s…

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…

The Nebulous Aftermath: Rebirth in the Works of Amy Aragon, Jay Ticar, and Maria Cruz
By Mara Fabella
"It remains the keen ability of the artist to condense this vast spectrum of stories into pools of color, form, and…

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."

How farmers and cultural workers teamed up to preserve Bulacan’s agricultural, built, and artistic heritage 
By Pao Vergara
“Tayo ang bukid,” (“we are the meadow”) reads…

Catalina Africa charts a shapeshifting path
By Sean Carballo
“The energy of my work comes from the Baler landscape... I am a conduit to translate the language of nature.”…

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…

Framing Windows to an Archive in three facets (After a text by Randall C. Jimerson)
By Lk Rigor
At ALiWW, Imelda Cajipe Endaya's archival exhibit presents a repository "open, rife with possibilities, just waiting…

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…