SIO MONTERA
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Abstract painter and art professor working between intuition and structure. Three+ decades studio practice pushing beyond decoration toward presence and depth.
29/04/2026
Spatial Discontinuity
Mixed-media on Canvas
121.9cm x 121.9cm (48in. x 48in)
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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