Featured Artists: Lyn Patricio, Renz Baluyot, Alee Garibay, Janrey Llegue, John Mark Galutera,
Guenivere Decena, Joen Sudlon, Christopher Zamora, Jelly Jimenez, Lymuel Bautista
Curator: Leslie de Chavez
Forming Breath: Meanings, Methods, Measures
Breathing is the most essential of bodily processes, continuously facilitating the exchange between the body and the atmosphere. Each breath, brief and often unnoticed, is a vital act that carries unfathomable depth, as each breath transforms invisible air into the fuel of life. As the ancient saying goes, hanggang sa huling hininga; breath then is the fragile line that defines the final threshold where life gives way to death.
The exhibition To Carry More Than Air explores this phenomenon in its elemental and profound registers – breathing as a means of revitalization and release, and a way of taking in and engaging with the world. Primarily a physiological process, ten artists from diverse practices intervene in the course of breath through visual and spatial
