Cut & Curated

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…

Reading Gale Encarnacion’s Pushkin Roberts Anthology
By Mara Fabella
"I found myself looking at each work in its entirety before checking their…

Oh, for art’s sake! The No Name Show is back
By Pao Vergara
In The No Name Show 2.0, Gravity Art Space puts art-for-pleasure center stage

Kanpeki: The Voice of Independent Philippine Artists Heard in Kyoto
By Koki Lxx
Koki Lxx visits Kyoto’s Voice Gallery, where curator Matsuo Megumi has teamed up with Nano to survey…

A Liminal Outer Space: On Celine Lee and Miguel Lorenzo Uy’s A Past, A Future
By Pie Tiausas
"What Lee and Uy simulate [...] lies in the interstices of our world and beyond — both here and there,…

Framing Windows to an Archive in three facets (After a text by Randall C. Jimerson)
By Lk Rigor
At ALiWW, Imelda Cajipe Endaya's archival exhibit presents a repository "open,…

An art of memory in crisis
By Sean Carballo
"In these works, looking is no ambiguous act. To look — clearly and intentionally…

The Joys and Abundance in the Life and Art of Inday Cadapan
By Mara Fabella
"The simplicity in her form and her lack of a formal artistic background had…

The Ghost of Memory in Lui Gonzales' Countable and Uncountable
By Pie Tiausas
Writer Pie Tiausas discusses Lui Gonzales’ newest collection of paper compositions built up from the…

Looking through the materiality of memories in Isha Naguiat's Photo of a Photo
By Lk Rigor
"By altering her family photographs physically and chemically, the artist created…

This is Not MO_Space: Traversing a space of unknowing
By Sean Carballo
"This is Not MO_Space gathers…

Remembering loss in Teo Esguerra's flirted with you all my life
By The Cartellino Team
The artist’s latest offering at Vinyl on Vinyl reflects on a life lived…

Imaging faith: A look at Lyndon Maglalang's Preparatory Measures
By The Cartellino Team
The collection of acrylic and dry paint compositions continues the documentation…

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…

Collaging Worlds: The Contemporary Spiritual in Jet B. Leyco’s Ispirituwal Transaction
By Pie Tiausas
"With the collapse of the search for an archaic singular truth then comes the…

A Red That Runs Deep: Doktor Karayom’s Namatanda
By Mara Fabella
At Artinformal Gallery, Doktor Karayom clads the walls red with tales of old, the stories that bleed.

The Transcendence of Memory: Luis Antonio Santos at MO_Space
By Meg Genuino
Navigating our processes of forgetting and remembering, Luis Antonio Santos uses the land, our environments,…

The contradictions of construction in Vien Valencia's 'Unpainting'
By Shireen Co
"These are the supposed fallout from other projects, material in between, on…