Sean Carballo

The Visceral Mindscapes of Tarzeer Pictures’ Hemispheres
By Sean Carballo
"Throughout the show, a range of elements attempt to provide structure and shelter for the mind. Light crackles and…

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,…

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."

Data Dump: AI and Abstraction in Wataru Sakuma’s Hypercomplex
By Sean Carballo
Across Sakuma’s paper works in Hypercomplex

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’,…

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

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…

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?"

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…

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…