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Refuge in the Art of Nicole Tee

"Are we shaped by the spaces around us, or are our spaces extensions of our innermost selves?"

Allan Balisi’s Waiting Games

"[T]here’s a romantic tinge to the practice of waiting, an ache that renders us momentarily porous, submersible."

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…

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,…

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…

Tactile trajectories: The curatorial life with Pristine de Leon

"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."

The Joys and Abundance in the Life and Art of Inday Cadapan

"The simplicity in her form and her lack of a formal artistic background had many questioning her skills. But Inday…

A Conversation: Brushing histories, carving space

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…

Renz Baluyot’s Anthem: A Song for the Adrift

Writer Mara Fabella ruminates on the lengths we go to give form to the ineffable and elusive, and finds grounding in the fictional draperies of Renz…

Ardent readings

"Ardent readings lead us to the emergence of something exemplary or to finding felicity in forms or articulations not readily recognizable as such."

'Connecting and Disconnecting': the Self In and Beyond the Cybernetic Astral Plane

Bizzarro pop-surrealist Ciane Xavier's latest exhibition, 'Connecting and Disconnecting', calls for pause amid the transhuman race

How Thirty-three Artists Redefine 'Kasarinlan'

Launched, tellingly, on July 4 at the Linangan Art Residency, the group exhibition 'Kasarinlan' examines the civic subject's autonomy -- or lack…