In curating Mothering/Unmothering, Vanini Belarmino takes on the role of conceiving and holding ideas together, mediating differences, and sustaining life Words  Vanini Belarmino Images  Featured artists (Mothering/Unmothering) This article is an introduction by  Vanini Belarmino , the curator of Mothering/Unmothering, and managing director of Belarmino&Partners. Conceived in less than four months, yet with a gestation extending over three years, Mothering/Unmothering arrives

For Mothering/Unmothering, Korean artist Jane Jin Kaisen presents braiding and mending as a memory-making act, highlighting familial and transnational bonds Interview  Vanini Belarmino Images  Jane Jin Kaisen Jane Jin Kaisen, photographed by Daniel Zox. Header : Braiding and Mending, photographed by Sang-tae Kim. Courtesy of Art Sonje Center. In Braiding and Mending , Danish-Korean artist Jane Jin Kaisen presents a dual-channel black-and-white video installation that unfolds

Presenting three interlinked works at Mothering/Unmothering, artist Lynn Lu explores lineage, female life stages, and the connection between bodies and water Interview Vanini Belarmino Images  Lynn Lu For Mothering/Unmothering , Lynn Lu, based between Singapore and London, presents three interlinked works: Be Afraid Only of Standing Still, Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Human Library, and Amnion . Be Afraid Only of Standing Still situates Lu in the Philippines through her Chinoy

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen reconfigures her works Mussel and Renaissance Swirl and The Mitochondrial Eve for Mothering/Unmothering, delving into the familial and societal roles a woman takes on Interview  Vanini Belarmino Images  Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen In Mussel and Renaissance Swirl and The Mitochondrial Eve , Danish-Filipina Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen presents a body of performance works reconfigured for the Philippines, extending her sustained inquiry into motherhood, ca

Artists Marah Arcilla and Sylvie Cox present Dandelion Scream for Mothering/Unmothering, a site-specific exploration in which bodies navigate architectural space as both medium and metaphor I nterview  Vanini Belarmino Images  Marah Arcilla and Sylvie Cox Dandelion Scream is about struggle, care, and transformation. It draws on the intimate gesture of a mother rising beside her sleeping child—carefully negotiating her own movement while bearing the child’s weight, attentive

For Mothering/Unmothering, Pitchapa Wangprasertkul’s The Standard portrays resilience through the body’s slow adaptation to a glass enclosure I nterview  Vanini Belarmino Images  Pitchapa Wangprasertkul In The Standard, Pitchapa Wangprasertkul positions herself inside a glass case mounted on an industrial push cart, navigating the tension between visibility and confinement. The work references both the display mechanisms of contemporary art fairs and the cramped, highly regu

Artist Moi Tran orchestrates Handling Act for Mothering/Unmothering, inviting viewers to read gestures as a language of touch and care I nterview  Vanini Belarmino Images  Moi Tran Moi Tran’s practice explores how care, labour, and meaning are carried through bodies, often quietly, repetitively, and without spectacle. For Mothering/Unmothering , Tran presents Handling Act , a work she describes as a “staged installation” in which the hand becomes both performer and subject. I

Filipina artist Tekla Tamoria reflects on AlterBibo as her first work shaped through care and repair, where the labour of art also becomes a practice of healing and self-becoming I nterview  Vanini Belarmino Images  Tekla Tamoria Editor’s note: The introduction and interview by curator Vanini Belarmino below follow after AlterBibo 2025 . When we last spoke in March 2025, on the occasion of the solo exhibition dedicated to AlterBibo at ChinaHouse in Penang, Malaysia, our con

Danish artist Molly Haslund transforms a fleeting everyday gesture through In Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones, a poignant meditation on time, collectivity, and the transitions of youth Images  Molly Haslund and Vanini Belarmino Words and interview  Vanini Belarmino Danish artist Molly Haslund first conceived her work, Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones, in 2019 and is now presented as part of In Situ, Performance as Exhibition  in Malaysia . The piece unfolds in public space a

For In Situ Malaysia, Danish artist duo Sofie Hesselholdt and Vibeke Mejlvang will present Be a beautiful force together, a participatory work that reflects on solidarity and collective agency Images Vanini Belarmino and Hesselholdt & Mejlvang Words and images  Vanini Belarmino Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, the Danish artist duo formed by Sofie Hesselholdt and Vibeke Mejlvang, have developed a distinctive practice that encompasses installation, performance, and social interventions

As part of In Situ Malaysia's closing program, FRONT by Danish artist Christian Falsnaes invites audiences to collective act of building, dismantling, and rebuilding Words and images  Vanini Belarmino Images  Vanini Belarmino and Christian Falsnaes Christian Falsnaes. Photographed by Estefanía Landesmann. Header:FRONT, Bielefelder Kunstverein, 2014. Photography by Philipp Ottendörfe. As part of the closing programme for In Situ, Performance as Exhibition –  The Malaysian Edi

As In Situ closes in Malaysia, curator Vanini Belarmino reflects on performance as an ongoing dialogue and invites audiences to ponder on what lingers after the act Words and images  Vanini Belarmino This article is an epilogue by  Vanini Belarmino , the curator of In Situ, Performance as Exhibition, and managing director of Belarmino&Partners. To work as an independent curator is to move through a field of both freedom and fragility. It means persisting amid uncertainty, gui

Art collective Triangulum’s Free Scan Job explores portraiture as an encounter, inviting subjects and artists to connect, collaborate, and co-create Words Belarmino and Partners Images  Triangulum Editing  Gabrielle de la Cruz “Triangulum started as a platform for artists to focus on raw and authentic expression. I started to explore creativity deeply through photography, and that led me to understand how instant and reproducible the medium is,” opens E.S.L. Chen, Triangulum

Curator Vanini Belarmino speaks with Thirteen Artists awardee Tekla Tamoria on AlterBibo and the transformation of wearable art into living form Interview  Vanini Belarmino Editing The Kanto team Images  Tekla Tamoria Tekla Tamoria, AlterBibo , 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Created from fabric scraps at TESDA, a vocational training centre in the Philippines, multidisciplinary artist and CCP Thirteen Artists awardee Tekla Tamoria’s AlterBibo has expanded through photography,

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Vanini Belarmino in conversation with Virve Sutinen, Berlin, Germany, 27 August 2015 Commissioned by TanzConnexions, Goethe Institut...

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