The Cycles 2023
Photos by Nonie Gallenero The Cycles 2023 VIEW CATALOG A Narrative of a Decade: Translocality By Seonyoung Kim The international exchange between Gwangju and Bacolod, which began in 2014, is entering its tenth year through various transformative attempts over the past nine years. The wave of exchange began in 2014, when Gwangju opened the Katalista […]
Brandon Braza and the art of being left behind
Photo credits to The Philippine Star Brandon Braza and the art of being left behind by Nicole Soriano I had almost finished walking through the show when a pile of luggage made me pause. The show was filled with paintings, making this installation stark—confronting. The luggage looked worn. Some pieces lay haphazardly on the floor. […]
Multigenerational artists present ‘Modern Negrense Family’ exhibit at Orange Project, Bacolod
Photo credits to adobo magazine and Chaela Mirano. Multigenerational artists present ‘Modern Negrense Family’ exhibit at Orange Project, Bacolod by Chaela Mirano BACOLOD, PHILIPPINES — What constitutes a family in today’s times? Seventeen artists from Negros Occidental attempt to answer this question through a multimedia visual arts exhibit entitled “MODERN NEGRENSE FAMILY” at Orange Project from July […]
Modern Negrense Family
Modern Negrense Family VIEW CATALOG What constitutes a family in today’s times? Over the last generation or so, the nuclear unit of the family–father, mother, and their children–has both altered and remained the same, in concept and in composition. While clearly defined by law,1 society2 and the church,3 the notion of family has arguably changed […]
Galicano Perry Argel
Perry Argel View Full CV Galicano Perry O. Argel (b. 1957) Perry Argel makes obsolete the very thought of obsolete. He describes himself as a functioning organism, clearing and fixing the space around him to reveal the purity of nature. In every assemblage, Argel presents different specimens linked to society’s overall concept of what is […]
Distant Travelers
Poster design by Barry Cervantes Distant Travelers VIEW CATALOG Text by Stephanie Frondoso The pop surrealist paintings of RA Tijing utilize storybook charm and symbolism for social critique. His ongoing series “Distant Travelers” illustrate the dangers faced by migrants in seeking greener pastures. In the largest painting, sheep are crammed into a boat—the sheep representing […]
Fotomoto 22: Home
Photos by Nonie Gallenero Fotomoto 22: Home VIEW CATALOG FotomotoPH is a photography collective that organizes the largest festival of Philippine photography to date. The group’s objective is to promote Philippine photography as a manifestation of our shared experience as a nation, including diversity in perspectives from different geographies, socio-economic status, genders and ages. Through […]
Brandon Braza for spot.ph
Photo credits to spot.ph Looking Into Bacolod Artist Brandon Braza’s Persistence of Practice by Portia Plaicno (SPOT.ph) Twenty-three-year-old Brandon Braza is a young Bacolod-based artist who explores the intersections of personal, political, economic, and social realities in his intermedia installation. In a conversation with SPOT.ph, he remarked that his works at times feel too personal. But he was reminded by a […]
Guenivere Decena
Guenivere Decena View Full CV (b. 1986) After graduating as Cum Laude in the college of Fine Arts in LCC Bacolod last 2009, Guen ventured into practicing art with communities through residency grants both local and abroad. Her multi-disciplinary practice in art brings about a holistic merge of installation and painting to her exhibitions; curiously […]
Daryl Feril
Daryl Feril View Full CV Daryl Feril is a Filipino multidisciplinary artist based in Bacolod City, Philippines whose practice spans illustration, design and visual art. A graduate of La Consolacion College Bacolod with a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Advertising Arts. Working mainly in illustration; design, he often shifts into the visual […]