Dislocation, transformation, transplanting; it’s all about memories.
- Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

Walking up into the Bellas Artes Outpost, we are transported into an immersive space reminiscent of the area beneath a traditional house from the Cagayan Valley. Cagayan Garden (2017) was created during a Bellas Artes Projects residency at Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bagac, Bataan by Australia-based, Filipino artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, along with their children Miguel, Diego, Amihan, Leon, and Aniway.

by Adjani Arumpac

The year 2016 recorded the coldest winter in Taiwan. In this worst of circumstances, Dennis Montera created his gentlest paintings—the Winter Itch and Pinyin series. These featured muted color fragments layered translucently one upon another, all in stark contrast to his previous color-laden, highly-texturized body of works. This newfound aesthetics of sparsity, borne in a strange country, follows through in a collection of oeuvres for his twentieth solo exhibition, A State of Introspection.

Despite my being _____; Life does not end in a period “.”

text by Carlomar Arcangel Daoana

text and photos by Rachelle Parian

Pineapple Lab—a creative hub that gives prominence to the works of art makers—opened their current exhibition last Thursday, 13th of July, entitled: The Undercurrent which features a miscellany of visual contemporary artworks by thirty Filipino artists based in and around Manila, who are under the age of thirty.   ​