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Two collectives show how Antipolo’s art traditions continue to define the city as a creative capital

Against a backdrop of museums, workshops, and artist retreats, we spotlight two collectives communicating the city’s…

Refuge in the Art of Nicole Tee

"Are we shaped by the spaces around us, or are our spaces extensions of our innermost selves?"

Dreaming and Beyond: Jun Impas’ Pangandoy

“From festivals to the stillness of a normal weekday, his paintings orient us to see the peripheries.” 

Finding the Filipino in Living Pictures

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

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

“It is this emotion that compels, that makes art relatable, that turns a personal image universal.”

Catalina Africa charts a shapeshifting path

“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

"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

"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

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

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

"This is Not MO_Space gathers past and present works from 15 artists…

Imaging faith: A look at Lyndon Maglalang's Preparatory Measures

The collection of acrylic and dry paint compositions continues the documentation of the artist’s journey toward…

Fotomoto 22 brings us “Home”

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

“Fire is life and death, the beginning and end, constantly burning through the timeline of our national identity…