For her U.S. debut, Carina Santos presents her so-called “pour paintings,” evocative abstract paintings that employ material, gesture and chance to conjure up memories of terrains and skies. Her process begins with mixing color, pouring pigment on a canvas laid flat on the floor, allowing it to sit and lead her to where the painting should go. “It’s not really an accident because it is deliberate," Santos says. “But when the colors interact, it does create something new and surprising. I do lead it, but it ends up where it wants to be.”

Born under the uneasiness of the lockdown years, the comets began as experiments using materials already found in the artist’s home and studio. An avid collector of historical objects, plant specimens, and other curiosities, Halili’s affinity with the natural world mirrors that of an Enlightenment-era gentleman: energized by discovery, guided by experimentation, and driven by the desire to understand the world.

Endaya describes this work as a kind of self-portrait, even if none of the figures resemble her. She has perhaps always seen herself in each of these women, which speaks to the empathy that radiates in her work. In Kahapon Muli Bukas, she asks us to do the same: every worn object, unsettling gaze, and victorious posture moves us to close the distance between ourselves and the neglected Filipino women of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Lim’s practice lives within the tension between opposing forces and elements: additive versus subtractive, positive versus negative, embedding versus extracting, painting versus sculpture, near versus far, body over landscape. With each new body of work, she labors to complicate and further nurture this tension, without favoring one side over the other. What emerges is a kind of hybrid, self-reflexive approach, anchored in process. When one comes across Lim’s works, one may notice a picture plane marked by incisions, as if a sentient surface wounded in the process and later bearing scars. Skin—near and personal—brought to the scale of the heavens, distant, vast, and all-encompassing.