Galleries across Metro Manila launch light, tender, and witty exhibitions that touch on themes of mortality, memory, and imperfection–universal phenomena shared by everyone daily and in small pockets that shape each person distinctly. Erika Mayo (Provenance Gallery) and Allan Balisi (Mo_Space Gallery) discuss how we are porous creatures inevitably shaped by connections and spaces. Mac Eparwa (Space Encounters Gallery) conjures a fictitious ecology inspired by our country’s experience of typhoons. Meanwhile, artists at Modeka gallery courageously let play lead their experimental collaborations. Lena Cobangbang playfully reframes the cemetery as a site with fiber. From these shows, one might tread otherwise serious and difficult themes with ease as artists creatively meander through them. Beneath Familiar Branches by Jemima Yabes at Mo_Space In the midst of summer, Jemima Yabes brings to the fore the graceful capacity of the small things of nature to invoke memories that rest within the inner landscape of..
