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 Time as truthsayer and shaper: Seventy Years Later

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

“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

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

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

Pablo Capati III, Marco Rosario, and Jezzel Wee’s ‘These common, intimate things’, and Jon Pettyjohn’s ‘Steps’,…

The Black Dog Rises: Javy Villacin’s Itum na Ido at Qube Gallery

In his ‘Itum na Ido’, Javy Villacin combines past and future to chart the evolution of power.  

First impressions: Inside the OVERINKED Studio

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

Dust envelops the sweep of Stephen Lucio’s first solo exhibit. The through line of ‘When Dust Settles’, it follows the artist’s…

Flux and Process with Antoni Muntadas

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

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

"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

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

"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

"It remains the keen ability of the artist to condense this vast spectrum of stories into pools of color, form, and…

From Me To You: Long Distance Worlds in Guided Agitation

At Gravity Art Space, experiences through sound collapse distance and time.

A Paradise Ago: Pinky Ibarra Urmaza's Ghost Ode to the Library

"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

“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

Between carrying her family's legacy and forging her own artistic path, Anna Orlina's practice is one of harmony and play.