Surreal realities in Manix Abrera’s News Hardcore

Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Comic strips courtesy of Manix Abrera “At dahil hindi natutulog ang balita, nakatutok kami beinte-kwatro oras (And because the news never sleeps, we are tuned in twenty-four hours),” goes the spiel of veteran news anchor Mike Enriquez of GMA Network–a mantra that everybody in the media would come to know as early…

Smartphone images on metal in “IRONIC”

Text by: Chris Quintana  Inside the white room, framed square iron sheets hang, bearing in tangible perpetuity the artist's attempt to make sense of the world—faces and shapes from the shadows inked in black surface from the bare white void. Photographer Veejay Villafranca opened his latest exhibition "IRONIC" on July 15, 2015 at Pineapple Lab,…