Curated by Vanini Belarmino
PRESENTS
PRESENTER
TRIANGULUM is an artist-run initiative and independent art space based in Quezon City, Philippines, exploring the evolving roles of art and culture in a rapidly changing world. Founded in 2023 by E.S.L. Chen in response to the monolithic nature of societies, the collective fosters open expression and collaboration, with significant contributions from Frelan ‘Pakz’ Gonzaga, Karina Broce Gonzaga and Wipo in shaping its vision of bringing artists together to freely share ideas. Photography and the physical print hold a special place in TRIANGULUM’s practice, representing its creative origins and serving as tools for exploring identity and dialogue. The collective seeks to physically export Philippine art, culture and talent through international exchange, publications and public engagement, building a network of like-minded collaborators worldwide.
With Mothering/Unmothering, TRIANGULUM embarks on its first multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in the Philippines, presenting international artists across diverse contexts. The collective is also developing a modern printing workshop and artist residency programme that examines the evolving role of print in contemporary art.
Photography by Raena Abella
Photography: Raena Abella
E.S.L. CHEN,
FOUNDER OF TRIANGULUM
E.S.L. Chen is a self-taught artist who focused on photography in his early years. He took up applied economics at De La Salle University Manila. The advent of ubiquitous digital imaging and social media led him to explore creativity. His primary interest is the interface of old and new—how analogue and digital processes meld with each other. Chen’s work is an amalgamation of paradox, time and impulse. The focus is on preserving personal experiences as visual memories. He has recently rediscovered his childhood love of drawing and painting and has continued to integrate them in his practice. These interests were rekindled during a sabbatical in Europe where he was exposed to large-scale paintings. A residency at the Orange Project in late 2022 pushed him to play across mediums. He is the founder of Triangulum.
VANINI BELARMINO
is an independent curator, producer and writer. She is the founder and managing director of Belarmino&Partners. Her curatorial practice focuses on the productive potential of artistic encounters, promoting collaborations across genres and creating interventions in public spaces. She completed her landmark project In Situ, Performance as Exhibition (2024–2025) in Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia. With a career spanning three decades, Vanini has led initiatives across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. As Assistant Director (Programmes) at the National Gallery Singapore, she curated the Gallery Children’s Biennale (2017, 2019, 2021). She collaborated on special commissions with artists such as David Medalla, Ho Tzu Nyen, Lee Mingwei, Mark Justiniani, Lee Wen, Pinaree Sanpitak and Sissel Tolaas, among others. She also co-curated Afterlude-Prelude: Responses to Nam June Paik(2021) with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).
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Photography by Ruthe Zuntz
Photography: Ruthe Zuntz
Photography: Daniel Zox
JANE JIN KAISEN
is a visual artist, filmmaker and professor at the School of Media Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Spanning the mediums of video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance and text, her artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities. Kaisen is known for visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic and multivoiced feminist works through which the past and present are brought into relation. Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders and translation, she activates the field where lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories. Kaisen represented South Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale with the film installation Community of Parting (2019). She was awarded Exhibition of the Year 2020 by the International Association of Art Critics, Denmark, for Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and awarded the Montana ENTERPRIZE at Kunsthallen Brandts in Denmark (2011). Kaisen has participated in the biennials of Liverpool, Gwangju, Anren and Jeju, among others. She holds a PhD in artistic research from the Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Photography: Bjarke Johansen
LILIBETH CUENCA RASMUSSEN
is a performance and visual artist who explores themes of identity, culture, religion, gender and social relations. Drawing on her Filipino and Danish heritage, she crafts narratives that blend personal and cultural insights, incorporating text, music, costumes and scenography. With a critical yet humorous approach, Cuenca Rasmussen examines issues such as ethnicity and affiliation, creating a unique space in her art that transcends traditional boundaries. A professor of time-based and performance art at the University of Bergen’s Art Academy, Norway, she has performed and exhibited globally, including at institutions like Akademie der Künste, Ateneo Art Gallery, AROS Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Copenhagen Contemporary, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Tate Modern, National Gallery Denmark and the National Gallery Singapore. Her work has earned her numerous accolades, including the Ecksberg Medal (2008), Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation Award (2012), Thorvaldsens Medal of Honor (2023) and New Carlsberg Foundation’s Art Prize (2023).
Photography: Bjarke Johansen
LYNN LU
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Photography: Dan Yeo
LYNN LU
is a visual artist whose research-led practice emerges from her interests in context and site specificity, participation and collaboration, and the poetics of absurdity. Her current research investigates the figure of the Crone and female ageing to subvert and deepen the ways we collectively understand and experience menopause. She is also learning pole dance to repurpose a craft historically designed for male titillation, for strength training and acrobatics to combat menopausal ailments like osteoporosis, heart disease and brain fog, and to explore feminine resilience and sensuality in post-reproductive life. Recent showcase venues include the Whitechapel Gallery, Brent Biennale, National Gallery Singapore, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Palais de Tokyo, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Singapore Art Museum. With a PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia, Lynn is a visiting artist at London College of Communication, an associate lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore and an associate artist at ]performance space[.
Photography: Dan Yeo
MARAH ARCILLA
is a dance artist from Manila, based in Hong Kong since 2005. A scholar of the Philippine High School for the Arts, CCP Dance School, Ballet Philippines and Steps Dance Studio, she trained with Myra Beltran, Donna Miranda and Julie Alagde-Carretas. Her works have been presented at the i-Dance Festival in Hong Kong, the Shenzhen Fringe Festival and the Hong Kong International Choreography Festival. She has collaborated with Isaac Wong, Scarlet Yu, Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy and Maria Hassabi on White Out and I’ll Be Your Mirror. Recent works include Graceful Dissociations (2024), a solo for Manila International Dance Day Festival, and Dandelion Scream (2025, with Sylvie Cox), commissioned by Tai Kwun for Art After Hours. She is also a yoga practitioner, whose teaching ethos combines clarity, purpose and intent.
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Courtesy of the artist.
Photography: Yiannis Katsaris
MOI TRAN
Is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves across theatre, text, sound, installation, video and live art to examine situated emotion as sites of knowledge and struggle. Her practice attends to ‘emotional reckoning’ as a methodology to trace how feelings are organised, authorised and appear within infrastructural arrangements of power. Through modes of witnessing and fugitive performativity, Tran reorientates emotion, positioning scenes of embodied feeling as generative sites of critical and archival agency. Her work has been presented internationally at the Wellcome Collection, PEER, LUX, VCCA, Tate Modern, LADA, Venice and Gothenburg Biennales, Prague Quadrennial, Yeo Workshop, Chisenhale Dance, SPILL Festival and the Mark Rothko Centre, among others. Parallel to her visual and performance practice, she works extensively as a set and costume designer in theatre, dance and opera.
Photography: Yiannis Katsaris
PITCHAPA
WANGPRASERTKUL
is an artist working with performance and installation, whose practice explores power relations, authority and audience participation. Her works examine how imbalances of power shape thought, belief and the formation of individual subjectivity. Through structured performative situations, Wangprasertkul reconfigures the hierarchy between artist and audience, transferring agency to participants while deliberately diminishing her own authority. Participation thus becomes both method and outcome, prompting viewers to assume responsibility within the work. She was first introduced to performance art at 19 as a facilitator for The Abramović Method exhibition at the 2018 Bangkok Art Biennale, and presented her first performance work in 2020. Her past works include: Things Left to Forget & Things That Stay, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2025); Like Water, Indonesia Bertutur Festival, Bali (2024); and solo exhibitions: Don’t Cry at Work, Gallery VER, Bangkok (2024); The Standard, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2022); and Hello Stranger, Turner Gallery, Tokyo (2021).
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Courtesy of the artist.
Courtesy of the artist.
SYLVIE COX
was born and raised in Hong Kong and finished her professional dance training at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Britain, where she was an associate dancer with Chrysalis London dance company. Back in Hong Kong, she works as a freelance contemporary dancer and performance artist. She participated in the Hong Kong International Choreography Festival (2018–2019), creating her own work and collaborating with artists including Isaac Chong Wai, Emanuel Pelmuș, Marge Monko and Cao Fei. From 2020 to 2022, she worked with Tai Kwun JC Contemporary on exhibitions by Eisa Jocson, Scarlet Yu, Xavier Le Roy, Tino Sehgal and Pan Daijing. Her recent projects include Drifting Among Crossings (2024), Fragments (2022) and Dandelion Scream (2025), first created with Marah Arcilla for Art After Hours: The Unsettled.
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TEKLA TAMORIA
is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans installations, tapestries, wearable art, photography, video and performance. Committed to sustainability in art and fashion, she repurposes discarded fabrics, old clothing and paper into intricate creations that interweave Filipino cultural narratives with personal stories, fictional characters and playful imagination. Tamoria’s work has been exhibited in France, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines, with group shows at institutions such as Ateneo Art Gallery, Pinto Art Museum, M+, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila and the Vargas Museum. A graduate of the University of the Philippines with a degree in fine arts, she has participated in artist residencies, including the Beppu Project (Japan) and A Bungalow (Philippines). She is the recipient of Ateneo Art Gallery’s Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art (2023) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ 13 Artists Awards (2024).
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Photography: Kiko Nunez
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JEI ENTE
Marie Julienne ‘Jei’ B. Ente is an assistant curator and the associate manager of the research and publications group of Ayala Museum. She is co-curator of the exhibition Splendor: Juan Luna, Painter as Hero (2023) and a contributing author in the corollary publication. She has done editorial work for numerous Ayala Museum publications. She is the current curator of Ayala Museum’s public art exhibition programme OpenSpace, through which she has managed shows by Filipino contemporary artists such as Derek Tumala, Joshua Limon Palisoc, Ronald Ventura, James Clar, Alwin Reamillo and Allison Wong-David. Jei has also curated or managed numerous free contemporary art exhibitions at Ayala Museum, in partnership with organisations like FotomotoPH, Shell Pilipinas Group, CANVAS and Silverlens Galleries.