Cut & Curated

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."

A wild plant grows through the concrete pavement
By Pao Vergara
Punk lives on in unexpected spaces through artists A.lien (Neil Arvin Javier)…

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

 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…

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.  

A Break-Up as Queer Form in Jao San Pedro’s Willing the Sun to Rise Twice
By Sean Carballo

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’,…

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…

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,…