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The current unruly state of using archives in artmaking
By Lk Rigor

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

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

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

Flux and Process with Antoni Muntadas
By Sean Carballo
Following his review of the artist's' Exercises on Past and Present Memories, Sean Carballo and Antoni Muntadas sit down to reflect on the…

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…

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…

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?"

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."

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.”…

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…

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…

How memory weaves a thread of justice
By Pao Vergara
In its second iteration in the Ateneo Art Gallery, a collaborative exhibit between researchers, autobiographical subjects, and artmakers puts on a…

Pio Abad: Exorcising the Ghosts of the Marcos Regime
By Mara Fabella
After ten years of research into the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Pio Abad's Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts unearths…

Remembering and Retrieving in Ateneo Art Gallery's Ligalig
By Meg Genuino
"...With only less than a month before the registered population is given a chance to choose the nation’s leaders, Ligalig presents a diversity…