Art

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…

Two shows bask in clay’s quiet conundrums

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

In his ‘Itum na Ido’, Javy Villacin combines past and future to chart the evolution of power.  

What happens after the dust settles? Stephen Lucio reflects on mortality

Dust envelops the sweep of Stephen Lucio’s first solo exhibit. The through line of ‘When Dust Settles’,…

Finding the Filipino in Living Pictures

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

"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

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

"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

"It remains the keen ability of the artist to condense this vast spectrum of…

From Me To You: Long Distance Worlds in Guided Agitation

At Gravity Art Space, experiences through sound collapse distance and time.

A Paradise Ago: Pinky Ibarra Urmaza's Ghost Ode to the Library

"What does an artwork know? What does it withhold from the viewer? And how…

Reading Gale Encarnacion’s Pushkin Roberts Anthology

"I found myself looking at each work in its entirety before checking their…

Oh, for art’s sake! The No Name Show is back

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

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

"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)

At ALiWW, Imelda Cajipe Endaya's archival exhibit presents a repository "open,…

An art of memory in crisis

"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

"The simplicity in her form and her lack of a formal artistic background had…

The Ghost of Memory in Lui Gonzales' Countable and Uncountable

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 altering her family photographs physically and chemically, the artist created…