ArtAsiaPacific

Survival Mode

MANILA

ays before the opening of Art Fair Philippines (AFP), the country’s largest art event, the inaugural ALT Philippines (February 14–16), co-organized by ten galleries that broke away from AFP, opened at the SMX Convention Center. A popular attraction presented by the Drawing Room (Manila) was Derek Tumala’s video installation (2020), which flashes more than 900 images across ten vertically oriented screens to imitate how photos are viewed on mobile phones. Other notable works included Lesley-Anne Cao’s engraved marble slabs at the artist-run MO_Space (Manila), and Josephine Turalba’s mahjong set, (2019), at Galleria Duemila (Manila). While some exhibitors found success at ALT, selling out their booths by the end of the first day,

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from ArtAsiaPacific

ArtAsiaPacific3 min read
Milan
Pirelli HangarBicocca Thao Nguyen Phan’s works are at once beautiful and devastating, their harrowing stories poetically revealed like emotional gut punches. And one is struck by the extent of the tragedy and the burning shame at knowing almost none
ArtAsiaPacific4 min read
London
Hayward Gallery In 1974, Hiroshi Sugimoto was standing in front of a large diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York when he had a sudden revelation. Conceding that the backdrops looked fake, he noticed that by “taking a quick pee
ArtAsiaPacific11 min read
Yuko Mohri
A bowl of fruit is a classical subject in European painting. A long roll of paper might provide the perfect surface for a calligrapher’s strokes or an ink painter’s depiction of a beautiful landscape. A well-tuned piano’s strings vibrate at just the

Related