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With “space” defined from a geographic standpoint, ILCP Art Space pins the artists’ current location as reference point in artmaking and surveys resources that are accessible to the artists. ILCP organizes group exhibitions with fellow artists who, like its co-founders Irma Lacorte and Tin Palattao, also make room for a studio despite their limited living spaces and full-time endeavors.

This September, the Dumaguete-based duo co-presents three exhibitions at Orange Project in Bacolod City, in lieu of the gallery’s 20-year anniversary.

Echoing Messages

Echoing Messages is an iteration of an earlier exhibition at Mugna Gallery which gathered artists who use printmaking as both medium and metaphor to confront the pressures of contemporary life. Marz Aglipay and Hershey Malinis both turn to food not simply as subject, but as a critical lens on the economies of survival and the politics of value. Marge Chavez, Tin Palattao, and Gabi Nazareno expand the possibilities of print, using it to explore material transformation, growth, and legacy. Fara Manuel, Irma Lacorte, and Kristen Cain turn print into a language of memory, distance, and emotional presence.

Together, these artists form a quiet chorus of resonance. In different ways, they respond to the exhibition’s original prompt: What do you want more of in the coming year? What message do you want echoed? Speaking through the different processes of printmaking, they remind us that the most enduring messages are built layer by layer – echoed, repeated, and felt over time.

Blues Unabridged

A connection, once made, takes on the test of time, like cyanotypes that could be ephemeral. The experience and the memory of a connection can weigh more than the tangible. Or the connection may be archival, which can reflect mastery and safekeeping. Two artists met: one a teacher, the other the student. Their connection blossomed into a friendship they have elevated in a collaborative and artistic spirit. Angela Silva, the teacher, works with passport portraits from her research into the American colonial time. Tin Palattao, the student, centers her printmaking practice on the organic elements in a garden she tends to. The contrast between the white and the Prussian blue, the only colors distinctive in this alternative photography technique, resonates timeless elegance amid the uncertainty of the process. In this exhibition, Angela and Tin meet again to mount a series of cyanotype prints central to their focus. This marks their connection and friendship and how far they’ve grown.

Pasalubong

After time and distance, what’s more important than safe return?  

So the travelers present themselves whole and unscathed to you, the one who waits. A gift proves surplus, an increase in capacity and perception. They are better than when they left; they know more, feel deeper.  A gift assures that—despite difficult travel over land and water, clouds and life—their relationship with you remains undiminished. Besides the luggage and hand-carry, the travelers dutifully carried the memory of you with them, and with clear intent they return to you, their hands filled with the flavor of their departure, the glitter of anticipated welcome, pieces of their changed identity, marks of who they believed you to be when they left, who they wish you are now, upon arrival.  

Pasalubong returns their piece of you to you. Ched De Gala, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Irma Lacorte, Mary Ann Jimenez-Salvador, Mia Angela, and Tin Palattao explore the notion of pasalubong—our custom of choosing the unique object, divining worth, and looking forward to acceptance—and hopes what they offer together, to you, will amount to a true gift. 

All exhibitions will run from September 13 to October 29, 2025. 

Orange Project is located at Art District, Lopue’s Annex Building, Lacson St, Bacolod, Negros Occidental. Gallery hours: Monday – Saturday 1-7 PM, Sunday 1-5 PM. 

*All Photos from ILCP Art Space