Art and Space
ILCP Art Space heads to Bacolod City for the Orange Project's 20th anniversary, bringing its mission of providing art with a space to evolve.
Words Katrina Clarice F. Abella
Photo courtesy of Marz Aglipay
September 05, 2025
While art in the province is often appreciated in intimate settings, it is rarely showcased on larger stages. But with the changing times, an increase in creative spaces flourishes, and art from these creatives is slowly given platforms to shine.
ILCP Art Space was founded in 2021 by artists Irma Lacorte and Tin Palattao. What began in the founders’ modest living space in Dumaguete was fueled by big dreams, unwavering passion, and resilient creativity. Their mission is both simple and powerful: to give art a space of its own and to nurture the growth and expression of artists.
In celebration of the Orange Project’s 20th anniversary, ILCP Art Space proudly brings its mission to Bacolod City, co-presenting three art exhibitions that honor creativity, collaboration, and community.
For the past two decades, Orange Project has served as a safe and vibrant space for art, supporting the local art scene and championing the talents of artists across the region.
Now, in collaboration with Orange Project, ILCP Art Space presents three compelling exhibitions that explore how art lives on through memory, relationships, and survival, navigating the many layers of human experience.
Echoing Messages
Echoing Messages revisits a previously held exhibition at Mugna Gallery in Negros Oriental, bringing its themes into renewed focus.
This exhibition features artists who use printmaking not only as a medium but also as a symbolic tool, conveying the complexities of navigating life’s challenges and pressures in today’s world. Through their works, they reflect the layered nature of human experience.
Artists Marz Aglipay and Hershey Malinis use imagery of food to explore struggles around economic survival and shifting values in modern life. Marge Chavez, Tin Palattao, and Gabi Nazareno turn to printmaking to express ideas of change, growth, and legacy. Meanwhile, Fara Manuel, Irma Lacorte, and Kristen Cain delve into themes of memory, distance, and emotion, using print as a way to process and preserve the intangible.
Together, their works will answer the question: What do you want more of in the coming year, and what message do you want echoed?
Blues Unabridged
This exhibition explores the meaningful relationship between teacher and student, Angela Silva and Tin Palattao, through a dialogue that intersects history and nature.
Silva, the mentor, draws inspiration from archival images of the American period, while Palattao, the student, responds with works rooted in organic elements from her garden. Their individual perspectives converge through a shared process and medium: cyanotype printing.
Using iron salts, ultraviolet (UV) light, and water, cyanotype allows them to merge the past and the present, the archival and the organic. Their collaborative works speak not only to their personal and artistic bond but also to a friendship that endures through time and uncertainty.
Pasalubong
Filipinos are known for their generosity, especially through the tradition of bringing home pasalubong, thoughtful gifts for loved ones.
In this spirit, the works of six artists, Ched De Gala, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Irma Lacorte, Mary Ann Jimenez-Salvador, Mia Angela, and Tin Palattao, become more than just prints. They are pasalubongs in themselves: symbols of love, memory, and reconnection that bridge the gap between artist and audience.
Each piece is a personal offering, a heartfelt gift of art meant to be shared, echoing the cultural practice of giving, and inviting viewers to reflect on the stories and sentiments embedded in each work.
The three exhibitions will run from September 13 to October 29, 2025, at Orange Project, located in the Art District, Lopue’s Annex Building, Lacson Street, Bacolod, Negros Occidental. Gallery hours are from 1 PM to 7 PM on weekdays and 1 PM to 5 PM on weekends.
