“Borderless” brings together foreign and half-Filipino artists whose lives span geographies. Some arrived by choice, others through heritage, many existing between cultures. Their works reflect identities shaped across languages, traditions and histories — neither fixed nor rootless, but evolving where worlds meet.
Artists like Ron Lopez Davis, born in the Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, bring bright emotional landscapes to Borderless. His Manila-based practice uses layered canvases to portray architecture, memory and the elasticity of identity over time.
David Kaufman, of Filipino-Spanish lineage, bridges his life in Manila and Madrid through works spanning painting, photography and sculpture. His creations metaphorically express the fluidity of identity shaped by movement across cultures.
Sacha Cotture, a Swiss architect turned painter, translates fluidity into gestural ink forms, breaking free from the confines of rigid structural design. His pieces reflect introspection and nature’s elemental force, inspired by his life in Manila.
Jonidel Mendoza, from Venezuela, creates pieces that blend form and atmosphere through translucent materials and industrial elements. His evocative work reveals the tension between presence and absence.
Henri Lamy, a French figurative painter, celebrates individuality through expressive palettes. Renowned for vibrant color and palette knife techniques, his paintings explore human complexity with distinctive visual flair.
Ron Lopez Davis and David Kaufman explore memory and movement through layered forms and materials. Sacha Cotture and Jonidel Mendoza shift from structure to fluidity, presence to absence. Henri Lamy and Lubotsky embody crossing borders through gesture, collaboration and material, treating art as both personal and shared experience.
Set in the Philippines — a historic crossroads — the exhibition frames borders not as limits, but as bridges. Across mediums, identity emerges as dynamic and unresolved, shaped through difference. Here, culture is not singular, but continuously formed through connection and coexistence.
