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

A city that kills in Mike Olea’s Kanayunan Patungong Kalunsuran
By Chesca Santiago
Mike Olea’s photographs trace killing as violence encoded in the daily…

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…

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."

The tenor of sound practice in Manila
By Chesca Santiago
A conversation with Dayang Yraola on the labels, ecologies, and shifts of sound.

The non-brutal submissions in Archie Geotina’s Tropikal Brutalism
By Lk Rigor

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…

 Time as truthsayer and shaper: Seventy Years Later
By Nikki Ignacio
Both guided by the notion that people are “intermediaries and creators of destiny”, Prado and Bumanlag…

Dreaming and Beyond: Jun Impas’ Pangandoy
By Gwen Bautista
“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
By Lk Rigor
In her second Curator's Talk, writer Lk Rigor speaks with Mayumi Hirano about the challenges and charms of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…