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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."

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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.  

First impressions: Inside the OVERINKED Studio

By The Cartellino Team
As part of Prints Made in May 2023, Cartellino met with the members of up-and-coming…

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

By Sean Carballo

Print and Imprint: Pandy and Diana Aviado on leaving a mark through printmaking

By Nikki Ignacio
“I’m still trying to find out what it all means

Playtime for the inner child: A look into Khavn de la Cruz’s art practice

By Pao Vergara
Khavn de la Cruz talks to Cartellino

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’,…

Flux and Process with Antoni Muntadas

By Sean Carballo
Following his review of the artist's' Exercises on Past and Present Memories, Sean Carballo and Antoni…

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…