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A Portrait of a Portrait Show II
By Mara Fabella

Approaching Surface Level: An Interview with Celine Lee
By Sean Carballo

Added to Cart: A Portrait of a Portrait Show, Part 1
By Francisco Lee

Two collectives show how Antipolo’s art traditions continue to define the city as a creative capital
By Pao Vergara
Against a backdrop of museums, workshops, and artist retreats, we spotlight two collectives communicating the city’s…

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?"

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

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.” 

A Break-Up as Queer Form in Jao San Pedro’s Willing the Sun to Rise Twice
By Sean Carballo

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…

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,…

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.”

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.”…

A Liminal Outer Space: On Celine Lee and Miguel Lorenzo Uy’s A Past, A Future
By Pie Tiausas
"What Lee and Uy simulate [...] lies in the interstices of our world and beyond — both here and there, and then and now — enclosing outer…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…