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Upon A Bed of Gravel: A Journey Through Nona Garcia’s Overland
By Mara Fabella
What does it mean to actually “be” in a place—to be present in all its qualities, in what…

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…

The Black Dog Rises: Javy Villacin’s Itum na Ido at Qube Gallery
By Alyssa Selanova
In his ‘Itum na Ido’, Javy Villacin combines past and future to chart the evolution of power.  

First impressions: Inside the OVERINKED Studio
By The Cartellino Team
As part of Prints Made in May 2023, Cartellino met with the members of up-and-coming…

Print and Imprint: Pandy and Diana Aviado on leaving a mark through printmaking
By Nikki Ignacio
“I’m still trying to find out what it all means

What happens after the dust settles? Stephen Lucio reflects on mortality
By Shireen Co
Dust envelops the sweep of Stephen Lucio’s first solo exhibit. The through line of ‘When Dust Settles’,…

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…

Finding the Filipino in Living Pictures
By Lk Rigor
Decribed as “the world’s first-ever survey of photography's histories across Southeast Asia”,…

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…

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,…

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…

The Nebulous Aftermath: Rebirth in the Works of Amy Aragon, Jay Ticar, and Maria Cruz
By Mara Fabella
"It remains the keen ability of the artist to condense this vast spectrum of…

From Me To You: Long Distance Worlds in Guided Agitation
By Pie Tiausas
At Gravity Art Space, experiences through sound collapse distance and time.

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…

The building blocks of Baraks: Artists at the heart of the collective/space
By Lk Rigor
“Fundamentally, artists are at the heart of this collective/space, so…

Reflecting Legacies: The Glass Art of Anna Orlina
By Mara Fabella
Between carrying her family's legacy and forging her own artistic path, Anna Orlina's practice is one of harmony…

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,…

Beyond the line: A profile on Eugenia Alcaide
By Corinne Fernandez Garcia
“It is this emotion that compels, that makes art relatable, that turns…

Galleries take a youthful approach to art at the Xavier Art Fest 2023
By Pao Vergara
Resuming its in-person format, the Xavier Art Fest continues its mission to…

How farmers and cultural workers teamed up to preserve Bulacan’s agricultural, built, and artistic heritage 
By Pao Vergara
“Tayo ang bukid,” (“we…

Catalina Africa charts a shapeshifting path
By Sean Carballo
“The energy of my work comes from the Baler landscape... I am a conduit…