Being raised in the mountains means always seeing the world at an altitude. The expansive becomes intuitive, and the interconnected is reliable. This is examined in John Frank Sabado’s portraits of people who have shaped his sense of communality from childhood. In Leonard Aguinaldo’s works, the figures see themselves as seeing the world change and how they wish to be seen in it.

Lying + Flying is anchored by a group of 1980s-era body prints on large, unstretched canvases, paintings that make the artist’s body both subject and instrument. Villa inked his naked form and pressed it onto fabric: face, hands, limbs, torsos. The gesture is direct, even blunt. A brown body marks space, refusing erasure. Years after his death, Villa still stands in the room.