SIO MONTERA

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You are cordially invited to celebrate
XXIII: Twenty Three Years of Renaissance Art Gallery

Join us for Opening Cocktails as we toast to 23 years of art, culture, and community.

Opening Cocktails: June 23, 2026 | 6:00 PM
Exhibit runs: June 23 - July 7, 2026
Venue: Art Center, SM Megamall

We look forward to celebrating with you.

Grateful to be participating in the exhibition of the 13th Pulilan Mandala International Art Festival!

The festival will take place starting today May 8 until May 10, 2026 and will feature distinguished visual artists from both the local and international art communities.

We invite everyone to join us in celebrating artistic excellence, cultural exchange, and creative expression through this vibrant regional gathering. Mabuhay!

EventuallyYou Will Have to Pick Up the Pieces and Reconfigure Your Life

Mixed-media on Canvas
121.9cm x 183cm (48in. x 72in)
2026
SIO MONTERA: THE AFTERLIVES OF RUIN
Curated by Jose Santos P. Ardivilla, PhD
“Resilience” is often praised as the Filipino capacity to endure, yet it can obscure the systems that produce suffering, demanding silence and acceptance. In Sio Montera’s works, resilience is redefined as refusal— refusal to disappear, become diminished, or to be forgotten. Using debris from disasters in Cebu, Montera transforms damaged fragments into charged forms where cracks and fissures remain visible as records of rupture. Embracing “spatial discontinuity,” the works foreground fragmentation and unresolved histories. Here, resilience is not closure but an ongoing engagement. Salvaging becomes preservation, holding both the remnants of destruction and the conditions that produced them.
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