Photo taken by Elvert Bañares Mark Salvatus (b. 1980) is a contemporary artist living between Lucban and Quezon City, Philippines. He studied Advertising at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Calling his overall artistic practice ‘Salvage Projects’, a name that corresponds to the meaning of his surname, Mark has presented his works in different exhibitions […]
Nice Buenaventura is a visual artist from Manila. Her methods revolve around the offloading of tensions, often between ethics and aesthetics, through drawing, painting, installation and citizen-ethnography. This extends to her project called Tropikalye, a mutual co-learning resource on vernacular culture in tropical and postcolonial Philippines. Using various strategies and modes of productivity allows her
Buen Calubayan (b. 1980, Manila) researches and makes art about the construction of world views through landscape theory, biography work, museology, Steiner pedagogy, among other approaches. His installations of paintings, diagrams, timelines, and archival works are attempts to map out an encompassing world picture and render of the Philippine landscape sensible.His works have been shown
KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA (b. 1976, Philippines) lives and works between Bacolod (Philippines) and Madrid (Spain). Through documentation, production, and writing, Ardeña contributes to the global movement of neo-tropicality – within a movement of cultural self-awareness transpiring through the ‘majority world’, climatic identity discovers its own cultural products and embraces them. Ardeña received his BFA in Painting