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Light does not simply reveal; it passes through, gathers, and presses against what resists. Dust gathers, light shifts, memory stays. This exhibition traces what remains when presence fades. artworks by Mano Gonzales Gail Vicente Goldie Poblador Matt Trinidad Miguel Aquilizan Jessica Dorizac opening May 16, 2025 · 6PM 2/F iSquare Building, Pasig City this exhibition will run until 20 June, 2026

‘Til We Lose Control curated by Derek Tumala and Jan Pineda I learn to stop counting hours when I’m on the dance floor. No sense of time, the focus is how you feel, your breathing; hydrate. Somewhere in between breathes, your lungs expand, becomes a space, a long inhale; exhale. The premise of a party is to have fun; a grid, a structure holding bodies in tensions. But once you step inside the rave space, the premise is gone; out of body; it comes back. What does your body do when you’re out there, into this plane, this ground, thousand steps, navigating, balancing, in and out? Edging out, coming to a close. Emotional fluidity; nothing is sacred anymore. In this constellation of photographs lies a memorial of the spacetime held in between consciousness and detachment. Captured images become monuments of liminal dimensions; one you can easily forget; some you will never forget. As light penetrates the sight, the breathing feels immortal; uncanny; and it cycles back again. A play in which you cannot hold your arms; a catharsis. To not be there; and back again. — The point is to dance until you do 'lose control'. * -D. Tumala * OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND: An Analysis of Rave Culture, Helen Evans, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 1992. A series of photographs capturing moments from Kaput & Smutt raves, 2022 to present. Through the eyes of Alyssa Muyco, Ennuh Tiu, Gabriel Villareal, Gio Dionisio, Josh Corbillon, Juno Christa, Kevin Cantos, Khrisiandt, Sean Olalo, and Herald Stalin—this show documents the blur between movement, music, and memory. When the night takes over, what do we hold onto? Co-presented by Fred Perry. Now on view until May 2, 2026 Tuesday to Saturday from 10AM–7PM 2F, iSquare Building, Meralco Ave., Ortigas, Pasig City

KAPUTX Art & Culture Program Roundup The 10th edition of KAPUT has expanded into an art & culture presentation resonating to the core concept of the ‘brokenness’ of our times. Exploring this idea of how can we pull through despite the darkness. We thank everyone for the massive support! KAPUTX will not be possible without our community, supporters and audience. Kaput Records Vol. I is available to stream and purchase at our @bandcamp account. ‘Til We Lose Control exhibition is on view at @edoweird until May 2. Gallery hours 10-7 Tues-Sat. Co-presented by @fredperry.ph Queering the Landscape, film screening curated by @moiralang . In coop with @goetheinstitut_philippinen Hosted by @1f_projects *full capacity* DJ Workshop with @borisdolinski In coop with @goetheinstitut_philippinen Hosted by @1f_projects *full capacity* KAPUTX: Our State is KAPUT Rave and live performances In coop with @goetheinstitut_philippinen *few conditional door tickets left at kaput.systems For inquiry about our programs, DM us.

Til we lose control. Presented by Fred Perry. An exhibition of images from the Kaput & Smutt rave archives. DJ sets by @dwaviee and @edgyteresa . Laurel Wreath on. See you there. 📍 Edoweird, Ortigas 03.21 — from 5PM Free

‘TIL WE LOSE CONTROL I learn to stop counting hours when I’m on the dance floor. No sense of time, the focus is how you feel, your breathing; hydrate. Somewhere in between breathes, your lungs expand, becomes a space, a long inhale; exhale. The premise of a party is to have fun; a grid, a structure holding bodies in tensions. But once you step inside the rave space, the premise is gone; out of body; it comes back. What does your body do when you’re out there, into this plane, this ground, thousand steps, navigating, balancing, in and out? Edging out, coming to a close. Emotional fluidity; nothing is sacred anymore. In this constellation of photographs lies a memorial of the spacetime held in between consciousness and detachment. Captured images become monuments of liminal dimensions; one you can easily forget; some you will never forget. As light penetrates the sight, the breathing feels immortal; uncanny; and it cycles back again. A play in which you cannot hold your arms; a catharsis. To not be there; and back again. — The point is to dance until you do ‘lose control’. -D. Tumala - Exhibition opens on March 21 and will run until May 2. See you!

Opening today from 5pm @edoweird ⚡️ ‘Til We Lose Control Images from the rave Kaput & Smutt (2022-26) co-presented by @fredperry.ph DJ sets by @edgyteresa + @dwaviee 7-11 Free admission. Open to all. Grab pin 📍 Edoweird Meralco 2/F elevator entry Let’s celebrate ✨

“ The point is to dance until you do ‘lose control’. “ This line is extracted from Helen Evan’s (1992) dissertation* on rave culture viewed from the lens of a visual artist. She thinks that rave and theatre have direct links with each other, that the rave experience is a transcendental phenomenon. “Music is prophecy, its style and economic organisation are ahead of the rest of society. It makes audible the new world that will gradually become visible.” * In this exhibition we feature selected images from a thousand photographs in our archive, 13 raves later — 9 KAPUT and 4 SMUTT. Young photographers, ravers themselves immersed in the experience of a rave creating liminal and powerful images, artistic documentation as we call it. Here lies a constellation of images, to remember the time we had, to look back and cherish the precarious nights held in between consciousness and detachment. -D. Tumala Join us this Saturday as we open “ ’Til We Lose Control “ with a listening party with DJ sets from @dwaviee and @edgyteresa from 7-11pm. Exhibition opens 03.21.2026 from 5pm til late. And will run until May 2. Edoweird is located at iSquare Building, 15 Meralco Ave, Ortigas Free admission. Open to all. Co-presented by @fredperry.ph Special thanks to @edoweird *Source: OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND: An Analysis of Rave culture. Copyright Helen Evans, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 1992

When New Feelings Take Shape As Mad Banners organized by Gail Vicente In this exhibition, the artists anchor their works in the layered and intermedia qualities of textiles as a medium. Each artist generates personal meanings through their own approach in both constructing and deconstructing textiles as a form. While some of the artists in the show engage directly with textiles, developing a system of symbols deeply embedded in design, patterns, and materiality of fabrics, others expand their visual construction across the intersection of other mediums: painting, drawing, assemblage, sculpture, and installation. Painting, its use of thick fabric or canvas, shares material qualities with textiles. Easily folded, kept, and transported, the portability of textiles make them a flexible material to access. These artists challenge the physical flatness of textiles and experiment with their dimensionality through embroidery, patching, ornamentation, and the use of repurposed materials to illustrate or convey ideas. Some of the works occupy space and volume through their installative and sculptural components. Contemporary forms of textile take their roots in the tradition of craft. As artists continue to blur the line between fine arts and craft, or think through art-making without such distinction, textiles become a critical medium for exploration, where tensions woven into it are loosened, and reimagined to take new interpretations. In the Philippines, traditionally handwoven textiles carry designs and patterns drawn from the natural environment, involving ritualistic and spiritual processes in making them. In the case of T’nalak weavers from the T’boli people of Lake Sebu in South Cotabato, the making of textiles requires a harmonious collaboration between the husband, who sources and fine-tunes the abaca, and the wife, who creates the design and weaves. This demonstrates the social relations that shape the way textiles are produced, positioning the strong weaving traditions in the Philippines as cultural forms that bind the dimensions of life across the archipelago. text by James Tana (continued in the comment section) @_ladygay @jamesluigit

Opens this Saturday, February 7, 2026, 6PM! - Long before the gallery was a white cube, the loom was a site of cosmology. To weave a blanket or stain a thread was never simply craft. It was a wager with the unseen—a way of asking for shelter, for passage, for a sign that someone or something was listening. That charge has not faded. It has only migrated. This exhibition gathers fourteen artists—Gail Vicente, Carlo Villafuerte, Masi Oliveria, Sela Gonzales, Tanya Villanueva, Tekla Tamoria, Cian Dayrit, Lena Cobangbang, Marionne Contreras, MM Yu, Veronica Lazo, Marita Ganse, Kalila Camilon, and Lara Delos Reyes—a diverse group unified by a common thread. They do not form a rigid movement, but a shared tension. Across generations, from the established to the emergent, these artists meet at the same crossing of labor and intuition, bound by the specific logic of the textile. In this room, the material is a witness. Cloth is treated as a surface that keeps score—of history, of place, of social friction. Echoing the role of textiles in ritual and everyday life, these works operate as intermediaries, suspended between private gesture and public memory, between what is felt and what can be shown. Throughout the space, textiles unfold as a field without fixed borders. Meticulous embroidery gives way to hybrid assemblages; weaving brushes up against drawing, installation, and research. The labor of the hand reasserts itself like current running through fabric. Placed in dialogue, these practices refuse the comfort of a single story. Instead, the exhibition asks for a slower attention, a willingness to wonder how fabric, so light and vulnerable, can carry the weight of a life. What emerges is a plural and shifting field, a contemporary weaving of voices in which the invisible is made briefly legible. - Masi Oliveria - Exhibition runs until March 4, 2026. See you!

from Pictures Of Something, curated by James Tana Formations, 2025 by Jan Pineda Single-channel videos, Hahnemühle prints mounted on metallic frames Jan Pineda reflects on the anxieties of being a queer person living in a capitalist world through photographs and videos. Titled Formations, the collection draws inspiration from the structured arrangements of product displays found in the middle of grocery stores. Intended to be seen and noticed in the market, these displays become a metaphor for Pineda, hinting at queer experiences of being visible and invisible at once. He recreates the same structure using mirrorized objects, translating it into his own interpretation of the still-life genre and further abstracting the form. In some images, he references blue and green PrEP packaging distributed primarily in Asia to recreate the structure. The triangular formations also echo his early work Portraits, a black-and-white moving-image piece depicting necks in the sensual act of swallowing. The dominant use of blue and green is a recurring element in his video works. Conceptually, he associates these colors with his practice in filmmaking and production, and childhood memory of growing up around his parents’ video production house. Formations, in this sense, is an act of returning to a personal practice of making. running until January 24, 2026 at Edoweird see you!

Void No.3 is a continuation of Idan Cruz’s series of work that shows his personal approach to filming. Referencing Cirilo Bautista’s poem Patalim, the four-part video follows two lovers, Anghel (Lav Diaz) and Val (Angel Aquino) as they portray an emotional spectrum of a relationship that is filled with tension. The camera captures their individual nuances, while revealing the intricacies of their personal and social interactions. Together, they move through heated arguments, shared silences, and fragile moments of vulnerability. Without a fixed or imposed narrative, the film unfolds on its own terms. Void No. 3 single-channel video, 17 min 9 sec Idan Cruz 2025 --------------------------- from Pictures Of Something curated by James Tana running until January 24 at Edoweird. @jamesluigit

from Pictures Of Something, curated by James Tana "2 Room Tones from 1972 and 2019" by Corinne De San Jose 47min audio loop, 2 channels, 2 custom speakers, mp3 player 2025 Two speakers are placed in the middle of a room facing each other, with a large mound of salt positioned between them. The speakers play the isolated ambient room tones from archival videos of two specific moments: Ferdinand Marcos’ 1972 declaration of martial law and Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial 2019 speech in Cotabato (in which he talks at length about him sexually molesting his maid, and his experience of systemic sexual abuses in the clergy.) The room tones have been digitally reconstructed, erasing the spoken words, and looped as alternating undulations that pan from one speaker to the other, resembling slow, repetitive breathing or the movement of waves. The mound of salt refers to folk rituals that use salt for protection or to break enchantments, suggesting both purification and futility. The work sits somewhere between ritual and failure, a sisyphean cycle of cleansing and contamination, or silence that could either numb or heal. It treads into aestheticizing the severity and violence contained within rooms that held it. Pictures Of Something may still be viewed at Edoweird after the holidays, until January 24, 2026.