A group exhibition featuring the works of members of Kolektib Opensib is ongoing at G-Space Gallery, Art District, Bacolod City.
The show titled “Laragway” opened on Friday, July 10, with Orange Project co-founder Charlie Co as guest of honor, and will run for a month.
Kolektib Opensib is a Negros-based contemporary art collective composed of artists working across diverse visual languages, materials, and conceptual approaches. The exhibition aims to present a collective exploration of portraiture—not as a fixed representation of likeness, but as a dynamic space for identity, memory, personal narrative, and social reflection.
Laragway, a Hiligaynon word that loosely translates to pathway or passage, frames the exhibition as a meeting point of individual journeys. Each portrait functions as an entry point into the artist’s own way of seeing—whether inward-looking, observational, symbolic, or experimental. Together, the works form a constellation of faces, figures, and personas that reflect the diversity of voices within the collective.
Leo Carton’s “The crown of a thousand whispers”, while at right is Mel Araneta and Ian Magbanua’s “Co-Lab”*
What is expected in this exhibition is the same breadth and contrast that defines Kolektib Opensib: painted portraits that range from figurative to expressive, intimate to confrontational, restrained to vividly colored. While unified by the theme of portraiture, each work maintains the distinct visual language and sensibility of its maker.
In this way, Laragway becomes not a single narrative, but a shared space where multiple identities and artistic paths coexist.
Featured artists are Gao Rezaga, Mel Araneta, J.R. Ledesma, Frank Nobleza, Hanz Martin Javier, Leo Carton, GilJohn Quiamco, Jr Hilario, Gerom Booc, Ian Magbanua, Arvin Belicano, Cresline Corsiga, Sandy Coberos, Francis Boy Alacapa, and Christopher Fernandez.*
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