Shortlisted for the 2024 Turner Prize for his exhibition, To Those Sitting in Darkness, London-based Filipino artist Pio Abad continues to carve out space for new ideas. As he reflects on over a decade of work with the release of the book, Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts, he underscores the power of paying attention as an act of resistance in a world consumed by distraction.

Through obsessive repetition and sometimes through the large scale of the crate works or the super formal plinth presentation of the fruit mesh works, I feel like I insist on the presence and relevance of these objects normally discarded or disregarded,” Coson continues. “By reframing what is familiar, we are able to see it again as if upon first glance, allowing the subjects to oscillate in and out of recognition. I hope to encourage the viewer to take a pause, a prolonged gaze at the glimpses of our everyday lives, to contemplate the layers of history and meaning embedded within things.”

"This place has a lot of function—his workshop and it's also a home, the place where I grew up." —Hanna Pettyjohn. In this video, father and daughter artists, Jon and Hanna Pettyjohn, discuss their duo exhibition 'Reflections, in situ' which foregrounds the environment around and within the Pettyjohn studio in Pansol, Laguna, where Jon and his wife Tessy have lived and worked for over four decades. Untangling how the story of domestic familiarity impacts this collection of collaborative artworks, is one of the many charms of this exhibition.