Sean Carballo

The Visceral Mindscapes of Tarzeer Pictures’ Hemispheres

"Throughout the show, a range of elements attempt to provide structure and…

What's in a gesture?

"To gesture, on the one hand, is to signify an artistic mark. But, on the other, it is an intuitive language…

Allan Balisi’s Waiting Games

"[T]here’s a romantic tinge to the practice of waiting, an ache that renders us momentarily porous, submersible."

Two shows bask in clay’s quiet conundrums

Pablo Capati III, Marco Rosario, and Jezzel Wee’s ‘These common, intimate things’, and Jon…

Flux and Process with Antoni Muntadas

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

Material Histories in Muntadas: Exercises on Past and Present Memories

"Resulting from a period of archival research after the artist first visited…

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…

Tactile trajectories: The curatorial life with Pristine de Leon

"Archive here is not personal, but intimate; it keeps the world close by. The hand is only one among many hands,…

Catalina Africa charts a shapeshifting path

“The energy of my work comes from the Baler landscape... I am a conduit…

An art of memory in crisis

"In these works, looking is no ambiguous act. To look — clearly and intentionally…