SIO MONTERA

15/09/2026

09/09/2026

Against Erasures

Mixed-media Assemblage
61 cm x 61 cm
2026

This new set of work continues the material and formal language developed in the 'afterlives of ruin' exhibition. In that earlier body of work, damaged and salvaged materials carried the immediate traces of catastrophe, rupture, displacement, and the persistence of memory within what remained.

The new assemblages move outward from that origin. Ruin is no longer only their subject or condition; it has become a method of seeing and making.

Together with fellow artist Noell El Farol, we ask what happens when matter is placed under pressure, whether by physical force, human history, or cosmic time. It also asks what remains when familiar structures no longer hold.

08/09/2026

Materially Connected

Mixed-media Assemblage
61 cm x 61 cm
2026

This new set of work continues the material and formal language developed in the 'afterlives of ruin' exhibition. In that earlier body of work, damaged and salvaged materials carried the immediate traces of catastrophe, rupture, displacement, and the persistence of memory within what remained.

The new assemblages move outward from that origin. Ruin is no longer only their subject or condition; it has become a method of seeing and making.

Together with fellow artist Noell El Farol, we ask what happens when matter is placed under pressure, whether by physical force, human history, or cosmic time. It also asks what remains when familiar structures no longer hold.

08/09/2026

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07/09/2026

Measureless

Mixed-media Assemblage
57.15 cm x 53.4 cm
2026

This new set of work continues the material and formal language developed in the 'afterlives of ruin' exhibition. In that earlier body of work, damaged and salvaged materials carried the immediate traces of catastrophe, rupture, displacement, and the persistence of memory within what remained.

The new assemblages move outward from that origin. Ruin is no longer only their subject or condition; it has become a method of seeing and making.

Together with fellow artist Noell El Farol, we ask what happens when matter is placed under pressure, whether by physical force, human history, or cosmic time. It also asks what remains when familiar structures no longer hold.

06/09/2026

Matter of Distance

Mixed-media Assemblage
58 cm x 55 cm
2026

This new set of work continues the material and formal language developed in the 'afterlives of ruin' exhibition. In that earlier body of work, damaged and salvaged materials carried the immediate traces of catastrophe, rupture, displacement, and the persistence of memory within what remained.

The new assemblages move outward from that origin. Ruin is no longer only their subject or condition; it has become a method of seeing and making.

Together with fellow artist Noell El Farol, we ask what happens when matter is placed under pressure, whether by physical force, human history, or cosmic time. It also asks what remains when familiar structures no longer hold.

04/09/2026

Studio overdrive. ManilArt this.



Join us this year as we trace back to the starting point of creativity: the humble line. Where The Line Begins is a celebration of the creative process, an ode to the realization of artistic expression manifested in its most raw form.

ManilART’26 is happening this October 14-18 at the SMX Aura Convention Center, Taguig.

Co-Presented by the City of Taguig and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in celebration of National Museums and Galleries Month.

ManilART’26 is supported by Ladder Events, Vision Prime Media, Phoundry, Future Studios, SMX Convention Center Aura, SM Aura, Via Mare Catering, Ticketbooth.ph, Museo Orlina, BDO Credit Cards, Grentek, Purefoods Deli, Art Caravan, DB Coffee Roasters, Quatro Arts, and Jade’s Temple Brewery.

Media partners include Inquirer.Net, Pop, Alike Media, The Manila Times, Manila Standard, Manila Bulletin, WhenInManila.com, Business Mirror, HueTV, Experience Travel and Living, and Negosentro Media Group.