“not quite here”, a solo show, is Pin Calacal’s digression from the present state through the exploration of the occurrences in sleep: the physical body remains at still, while the incorporeal tends to wander. The works reflect the artist’s constant struggle with one’s self to continue producing art while attending…

Gelvezon-Tequi’s retrospect is probably the most important exhibition by a Filipina artist for this year. Let me begin by narrating my own encounter with Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi, though not personal but through her work. Days before the re-opening of the gallery where I used to work, I received a framed still…

This is a coping corner. Coping, in architecture, refers to the process of covering or capping the termination materials of roofs, ledges, and baseboards, among others, to prevent dirt and water from seeping in the structure. Borrowing this technical term and relating it to the current state of cultural workers…

(Featured artworks by Gerecho Iniel Cruz, Pin Calacal, Celine Lee, Wipo, Jezzel Wee, Lesley Ann-Cao, Koki, Miguel Lorenzo Uy, and Kat Grow) Contemporaneity, as much as it defines a certain milieu, such descriptor has also broaden the discourse in art — its thematics, iterations, and utterances. It is only important…

(Transcript of interview with Ringo Bunoan | 4 October 2018 | 13:00 | Artbooks.ph, Pioneer, Madaluyong) James: How does being an artist help you in curating? How do you shift from being an artist to a curator when working on a project? Ringo: I think one advantage of being an…

The exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines comes with a brief but politically loaded advisory: Normal scheduling will resume shortly. The terminology, intended to be apologetic, is most commonly used in broadcast to notify the viewers of the temporary halting of television programs due to a system glitch…