Diversity marks the ethos of this year-ender group exhibition by 8Rooms and Provenance Art Gallery. Far from advancing a single unifying theme, medium, or artistic context, it thrives in multiplicity instead. What emerges is an exhibition that affirms art as a stronghold of our tales—no matter who we are, no matter what stories we may carry within.

The artists featured in this show hail from various junctures of Philippine contemporary art. Some emerging, others seasoned. A good number of them work with canvases and representational forms, the rest with sculptural formats and abstraction.

Across such diversity, the artists in “A Tale of Views” unite on common intent. Whether through canvas, paper, epoxy, figurative imagery, or nonrepresentational cues, the tenor is clear: they deploy their dexterity in their own visual languages not only to tell their own stories, but also to champion the lives and histories of the Filipino.

Written by Chesca Santiago