Buen Calubayan maps the landscape through radical reflexivity in UP Vargas Museum solo show.

From discarded packagings of goods and sheets of used sandpaper to diagrams and archival materials to long-standing artistic preoccupations, the artists featured this month turn mundane objects, scenarios, and musings into subjects of their artistic practices. The works of art in the exhibitions are not merely a refraction of the artists’ lived experiences, but an ode to human condition.

Everyday objects placed in an exhibition space for an artistic intention become works of art. Art+ Magazine rounds up prominent exhibitions for the month of June, 2023.

The exhibition was best approached with conceptual groundwork only as a secondary concern. Instead, the medium took center stage, positioned by the exhibition as a “primary ground where ideas consistently and ardently spring.”

When visual art meets mythology, people gravitate towards what resonates most. Where do we find grains of truth today?