On Earth Day, Filipino artist-collective Emerging Islands collaborates with international photographers to showcase coastal cultures in an outdoor exhibition in San Juan, La Union. This outdoor photography exhibition features award-winning photographers like Muhammad Fadli, Huiying Ore, Woong Soak Teng, Geric Cruz, Archie Geotina, Bren Lopez, Nicola Sebastian, and Asia's Most Influential 2021 Honourees Hannah Reyes Morales and Gab Mejia. Together, they document and explore the timely issues of plastic pollution and climate change that their respective countries are facing. Titled, "Follow the Water", this art-residency project invites viewers to rediscover our Southeast Asian waters and islands, the threats they are facing, and hopefully strive to find solutions.

Headlining the exhibition will be the launch of DIP Sea Kiss, a new work by Mandy Barker, in collaboration with Emerging Islands, to raise awareness of the plastic sachets that pollute our ocean. A conservation photographer whose work on marine plastic debris has appeared in the MoMA and Tate Museum, Barker embarked on a remote expedition with Emerging Islands and local communities in La Union, who collected plastic sachets from their waterways for Barker to use in the production of this work.

The exhibition will also feature student work from the Plastic Passages workshop, mentored by Mandy Barker, Hannah Reyes Morales, and Emerging Islands.

"Follow the Water" opens on April 22 at Flotsam and Jetsam Artist Beach Hostel, San Juan, La Union, at 4 pm.

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Check out Poklong Anading's "light, growth, residue" exhibition at Silverlens this month. Truly one of the finest in the contemporary art scene, Anading showcases his incredible adaptability in using different media and materials—from drawing to video, and to actual organic forms—demonstrating their interconnectedness, and insisting on seamless movements from one idea to the next.

Meanwhile, there is also a two-artist exhibition happening at Silverlens. In "Crime and Ornament", artists Pio Abad and Stephanie Syjuco re-engage and re-energise previous works to "confront the urgency of the moment" and exhibit revolutionary impulses and counter-narratives with their works.

Lastly, visit Silverlens Online Viewing Room on April 21 and watch Doubts & Dreams by Jed Gregorio and Renzo Navarro, presented by Tarzeer Pictures.

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Art Lounge Manila opens its newest gallery space at Molito Lifestyle Centre in Alabang. For its pilot exhibition, artist-friends Anna de Leon, Francis Nacion Jnr, Louie Ignacio, Jonathan Dangue, Ricky Francisco, Melissa Yeung Yap, and 0270501 mount large-scale abstract works in an attempt to satirise the appreciation of abstractions in this day and age. Entitled "Monumental Abstracts", the exhibition presents a diversity of subjects and inspirations to highlight how colour, composition, balance, movement, and sheer size present a welcome alternative to the narrative for aesthetic gratification.

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Before you miss it, today might be your last chance to see the sequel to Kristine S Lim's "Portraits of Christ" exhibition at Baluartillo de San Francisco Javier in Fort Santiago. The missionary visual artist collaborates with Jonathan Manalo, creative director of ABS-CBN Music, to add music to her follow up exhibition "Tetelestai". This gives visitors a multi-sensory experience in entering the baluartillo, making a deep connection with the Divine. From the red drapes and mirrors in "Portraits of Christ", visitors will be encountering a lighted crucifix illuminating the tunnel of the installation space. 

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