• Isabel and Alfredo Aquiilzan, Sanggol: Left Wing Series, Banaan, Magdalena lag. , 2025, charcoal on paper, 100.25 x 74 cm (framed)
  • Costantino Zicarelli, Green Screen, Smoke Screen (2), 2025, oil on canvas, 48.26 x 61 cm
  • Yeo Kaa, Rest and Healing, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 30.48 x 30.48 cm
  • Zean Cabangis, Untitled (2), 2025, Acrylic, pumice and emulsion transfer on cement primed canvas
  • Gene Paul Martin, open window, 2025, Oil on canvas, 91.44 x 76.2 cm
  • Luis Antonio Santos, [trembling], 2025, Flashe, acrylic, and gesso on canvas, 91.44 x 121.92 cm
  • Lui Gonzales, Gentle Visits, 2025, Pen and ink on layered torn tracing papers, 50.8 x 50.8 cm (unframed size), 61 x 61 cm (with frame)
EXHIBITION

Hold Everything Dear

MANILA, PHILIPPINES | 20 Nov - 5 Dec 2025

OFF-SITE EXHIBITION | MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Opening reception: 19 November 2025, 4pm
Location: Pasillo 18, La Fuerza Compound 2241 Chino Roces Avenue Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines

 

Ames Yavuz is pleased to present Hold Everything Dear, an exhibition featuring over 50 contemporary Filipino artists and collectives, a celebration of shared stories and artistic kinship within the Filipino art community.

The exhibition features a multi-generational group of artists whose practices span a wide range of disciplines and sensibilities with works by:

Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Pope Bacay, Allan Balisi, Renz Baluyot, Reen Barrera, Micaela Benedicto, Elmer Borlongan, Don Bryan Bunag, Zean Cabangis, Rocky Cajigan, Pin Calacal, Bjorn Calleja, Pablo Capati, Kiko Capile, Valerie Chua, Ronyel Compra, Lec Cruz, Cian Dayrit, Uri de Guer, Pepe Delfin, Kiko Escora, Babylyn Geroche Fajilagutan, Carlo Gabuco, Denver Garza, Lui Gonzales, Johanna Helmuth, Miggy Inumerable, Ryan Jara, Is Jumalon, Yeo Kaa, Five artists comprising the Kikik Kollective (Iloilo), Genavee Lazaro, Veronica Lazo, Christina Lopez, Gene Paul Martin, Mimaaaaaaaaw, Julieanne Ng, Jill Paz, Pam Quinto, Marco Rosario, Brent Sabas, Eunice Sanchez, Kaloy Sanchez, Luis Antonio Santos, Isabel Santos, TRNZ, Derek Tumala, Jezzel Wee, MM Yu, JD Yu and Costantino Zicarelli.

An homage to the Philippines’ dynamic creative landscape, the exhibition delves into the vast, tender, and complex terrain of love in its many forms—romantic, familial, communal, spiritual, and self-affirming. Through various mediums, the works reflect the resilient, nuanced, and deeply human expressions of love that shape Filipino life and culture.

For many of the artists in Hold Everything Dear, the act of making is inseparable from gestures of care. Their practices are grounded in attentiveness, intimacy, and the slow processes of observation and engagement. To hold something dear is to remain present with it—to sustain a dialogue through time and transformation.

Recognizing that the labor of care extends beyond the gallery walls and across national and institutional boundaries, Ames Yavuz’s sustained engagement reframes the exhibition not merely as a presentation of works, but as part of an ongoing ecology of connection, conversation, and mutual regard.

In this light, Hold Everything Dear reflects both the individual expressions of love and care found within the works, and Ames Yavuz’s broader ethos—to hold artists, practices, and communities dear by fostering deep, sustained engagement across the region.

More than a survey, Hold Everything Dear proposes a way of seeing and being with art: one that slows down, listens closely, and attends to the quiet, enduring forms of kinship that shape contemporary Filipino life and artistic practice.