Exhibitions

Rites / Rituals explores the various "rites of passage" of women. Represented by various artists from Negros Occidental and Cebu, the exhibition seeks to explore collective and individual identities shaped by culture, tradition, religion, and society. Questioning and probing societal customs, defining cultivated norms through upbringing, the artists explored personal rituals created, adapted, and routines set upon oneself. With the unexpected disruption of normal day-to-day activities and life in general caused by global events in recent years, how does one configure what was to what became? Each considers particular notions and practices as bearers of the past and, with an informed consciousness, a desire to convey their aspirations for the future. Moving forward in this specific place and time, each takes in to account the undeniable influences and transformational experiences brought upon by a post-pandemic existence - circumstances beyond our control - yet an opportunity to spark change within the individual self. As part of the ritual, each mindfully and deliberately chooses their medium in a process that best represents them. (by Karina Broce)

Grief is a tide. It comes crashing in waves, all-consuming. And then it ebbs. Slowly, it withdraws.

Grief, however, is a process. It transforms. It may be present, now and today. And then one day, it isn’t.

Ryan Uy has been intimate with grief for more than a year. His father was diagnosed with cancer, and right before the lockdown in March of 2020, his father succumbed. The following months were not easy.

His initial reflex was to fill canvasses with paper cranes. Origami sculptures of peace and healing, painted over and over, the repetition providing solace. The palette chosen for his cranes was flowery hues: blushes of pink, soft yellows and calming blues.

Central to these symbols of hope were solitary figures, boys without faces, hair whipped by the wind. Representing orphans, the boys were left faceless to allow for representation among gazers-by, permitting transference as a way to likewise offer solace.

The pandemic raged, and as vaccines were belatedly procured, it subsided. Gradually, restrictions were eased, businesses opened, and tourists came back to sand and beaches. Ryan’s cranes dwindled, and dreamers began surfacing.

Dreams of normality, if ever that word can still mean anything. Perhaps, dreams of careers and condo living. The corporate ladder. Digital natives and the gig-economy.

It is the break of dawn. The light of day, when we wake up from our dreams, and throw the blankets aside. The moment of reckoning, as we wrestle with truth, and walk into the morrow.

The crane is a compass. Introspection gives meaning and direction. To the morning, we smile.

Exhibitions

Emerging Tides

Rooted in Auspice

Unscattered Voices

Echoes from a Stolen Place

Francis Dravigny

Sio Montera

Janine Barrera

Local Linkage

Mino

Shadowcasting

OTHER PHOTOGRAPHY: Image-making Before Digital

Visayas Art Fair 2024

Phantasmagoria

Making Waves

Paint The Town Red

Space-O-Rama

The Brut Collective: First Stop Cebu

Hide & Seek

Subtle Alchemy

Street Beat

Labtik Sang Langit

Bleum

Call For Abstracts

XOXO,

Harmony in Heritage

Honest Immediacy

Let The Pieces Fall Where They May

Above and beyond us

Chasing Colors

Ballad of the Watcher

No Strings On Me

Cross Currents

Familiar Echoes

Devotion

CHROMATICized

Strange Beasts 2: Elemental

FOCUS

Qube at the VIsayas Art Fair 2023

Heritage in DistINKtion

Xandrine

The World In Love With Itself

Qube at MoCAF

Metamorphi

Historical Distortion

Baybayon

Metamorphosing

MUGNA DIX

LIMBS

LIL RASCALS

ITUM NA IDÔ

Independence Reimagined

FIGURE OUT: Temporal and Conceptual Configurations in Non-Pictorial Space

Mother and Child

Koantum Balud

Bejeweled

Salta

Landscapes of Diaspora

ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2023 feat. Words Unspoken

Under The Same Southern Sky

Beyond Borders In Parallel Time

Avalanche

I Am

"and floaters"

Qube x Visayas Art Fair 2022

Liwat Liwat (Repeat)

Mythologies

Dwight Lu

Rites/Rituals

Joyful Textures

Underdeveloped & Overexposed

Dangerous Beauty

New Chapter

Perception

Veneered Desires

Pucker & Bloat

Party Peepz

Vessels of Time

Pearls

No Straight Lines