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…

'The absence left the void half full': Works on what we find in nothingness
By Gabrielle Gonzales
Cartellino's first ever physical exhibition, presented at the 2022 Modern and Contemporary Art Festival, features…

Discerning Treasure and Wealth in Jandy Carvajal’s Repoussé Artworks
By Mara Fabella
His third exhibit of repoussé works, Ang Ating Mga Kayamanan Sa Bakuran is Jandy Carvajal's…

To the fires that never go out: An ode to the myth, method, and madness in Iya Regalario’s Tag-Apoy
By Nikki Ignacio
“Fire is life and death, the beginning and end, constantly burning through…

Manix Abrera’s Tahakin: Pick a path, any path!
By The Cartellino Team

The Gathering Infestation in ND Harn’s Collecting Faults
By Mara Fabella
ND Harn's latest offering at Finale Art File unpack the stashes of thoughts and memories we stow away in the…

When the present doesn’t hold: Navigating time between times in Anton Mallari’s When Dusk Settles
By Gabrielle Gonzales

Mass Media and Martial Law in Alfredo Esquillo's Bread and Circuses
By Meg Genuino
As the country prepares for the inauguration of a new president, Esquillo’s works beckon viewers to look…

Renz Baluyot’s Anthem: A Song for the Adrift
By Mara Fabella
Writer Mara Fabella ruminates on the lengths we go to give form to the ineffable and elusive, and finds grounding…

Synthetic Condition: Relics of the Personal World like Shed Snakeskin
By Carl Cervantes
As one's identity, memories, and feelings emerge from the depths of the psyche, they find synthetic expressions,…

The glimmer of woman’s desire in Pam Quinto’s ‘lonely is the room’
By Zea Asis
"It would seem that I’d been led to trespass at a crime scene. Was it…

Odes on a gossamer existence: The works of Hae Ryun, Christian Carillaza and Jem Magbanua
By The Cartellino Team
At Galerie Stephanie, a trio of shows offer a contemplative retreat into the sublimity of nature.

Pio Abad: Exorcising the Ghosts of the Marcos Regime
By Mara Fabella
After ten years of research into the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Pio Abad's Fear…

Tracing trajectories in Jonas Eslao’s Blanc Gallery Solo Show
By The Cartellino Team
In Jonathan Eslao’s most recent show, scrap fabrics overlap, crack, and crease and clumps of paint collect…