Melted City 5
From the very first Melted City in 2012, its current re-staging has evolved into an immense assembly of over 300 artworks hailing from two cities and even beyond—Manila and New York. Beginning with two pioneering artists and longtime collaborators, Louie Cordero and Jordin Isip, who first recognized the parallel trajectories of raw, boundary-pushing artworks reflecting the two cities’ complex histories and shared atrocities, Melted has become an anticipated event, offering a survey of where contemporary art stands across these two regions.
From the original works on paper to the now-predetermined 7 x 7’s, the show’s latest iteration is a sprawling grid of networks designed to include as many artists as possible from different places, while allowing artists to explore the impossibilities within the given frame. The fifth version embodies the connections between artists—the linkages, ties, and meshwork formed through interactions and affiliations. In this chapter, both curators expanded their reach to include recommendations and discoveries from other artists, broadening the matrix that defines the sensibilities of both cities.
Melted City 5 is the continuation of a fortuitous meeting between artists and their imaginations. It is an imaginary tradition for an imaginary place. Emitting blended pasts and futures, it is a space formed by merging indexes, figures, characters, and landscapes. It is what others might refer to as a congregation.
To say that this gathering has reached an unprecedented scale may not be far from the truth. Never before have two origins come together to form an assembly of this magnitude, to represent as many individual artists coming from opposite directions. Never before has the muddle and disarray coalesced into something more jumbled. Never before has what was melted become a solid mess of mesmerizing chaos.
/CLJ
Works
Albert Sy - Crux Jr.
Alexa Culioli - Underground Echo
Allan Balisi - Enchant
Amanda Bonaiuto - Crows Feet
Andres Barrioquinto - Cracked in the Mask
Andrew Tousignant - Study of 42nd and Madison
Angela Fanche - Dizzy's Growing
Anj Pe - Oras Na
Anton Mallari - Flora 26
Argie Bandoy - Untitled
Arturo Sanchez Jr. - Dirty Rotten Imbeule
Arvin Nogueras - Zero Time
Babylyn Geroche Fajilagutan - A Drop of Needle
Beejay Esber - Ang Huling Bantay sa Lihim ng Pagsabog
Carrie Hawks - Safe Passage
Cel Ramos - Clubhouse
Celine Lee - Values
Chelsey Pettyjohn - Tomorrow Comes Tonight (Fortune's Hump)
CHN0 - Small Problems
Clarence Chun - She's An Uncut Drug
Cocoy Lumbao - Figure 5 (Untitled Poem)
Connie Cordon - Quynn
Daniel Davidson - Just Try To Have Fun With It
Daniel Fishel - Adapt To Change
Dennis Bato - Solitary Within
Derek Stukuls - The Rat Catcher
Dexter Sy - Mother & Child
Dina Gadia - Tracks on Repeat
Don Bryan Bunag - Gaps
Don Dalmacio - Where
Drithi Rajkumar - Brain Fog
Efren Madlangsakay Jr. - Muddled
Egg Fiasco - Pastaparians
Elaine Navas - Happy Ending
Emily Ann Hoffman - Threshold (baby James)
Erik Sausa - Shadow Dance (When The Fire Meets Silence)
Esther Sarah Kim - Sir Gawain's Bane
Ethan Sim - Moped Ghost
Eugene Jarque - Static Noise
Frances Abrigo - Electric Relaxation
Franz Vocalan - Untitled
Geremy Samala - Schploom
Gino Abiño - I May Not Fit In But I Belong
Hannah Lee - Untitled
Hazel Lee Santino - Agate Hunting At Moonstone Beach
Hmac - Sketch Ass Lounge
Ikea Rizalon - Template #30
Indya Gokita - Soundwalking
Is Jumalon - Brief Joys
Isabel Santos - Fade Into It
J.T. Williamson - The Loot
Jacob Lindo - Lobster with Cigarette
James Bascara - Opening
James Gallagher - Untitled Bust
Jasmine Xu - Metamorphosis
Jason Gandy - Timekeeper
Jasper Kwong - 2926
Jean-Pierre Roy - Chromatophoric Apostle
Jemima Yabes - Midday Nap
Jessica Walker - Hilda
Ji Min Hwang - Empty of Full
JJ Zamoranos - Storm Shadow
Joanne Lee - Playmaker
Johanna Helmuth - Down to the Core
John Jayvee Del Rosario - Skyflakes Manna
Jomari T'leon - Glimmer I
Jonas Eslao - Afloat
Jonathan Fiedalino - Mystery of Cataleya
Joshua Washington - Untitled (Afro-Opulence)
Josie Stevenson - Garden
Justin Yoon - Early Autumn
Kabunyan de Guia - I Lab Pinoy DZAZ
Kat Mukai - Counterspell
Kelli Maeshiro - And All That We Wouldn't Say
Kemi Schleicher - A Walk Through Bedstuy, Circa 2023
Kiko Capile - Mushroom Girl
Kim Schifino - Full Service
Kris Abrigo - Zone2kan
Lale Westvind - Starships
Lauren Simkin Berke - Pencil Ruins: 12:05 PM
Leigh Cunningham - Soft Sounds
Lena Cobangbang - Pond Dweller
Leonardo Onia Jr. - WWX 721
Liam De Leon - A Bundle of Hipsters
Liv Garber - Park Jam
Lou Lim - Untitled
Lucy Gombas - Rusalka
Luis Santos - Untitled
Lynyrd Paras - Pako at Puso
Mac Valdezco - Kisapmata
Mariano Ching - Portrait Series 6
Mark Andy Garcia - Untitled
Mark Anthony Bardinas - In Blind
Mark Tandoyog - Mountain Run
Max Hughes - Xel-Ha
Mikko Baladjay - Paint Signal
Mimaaaaaaaaw - Forward
Mona Santos - Blooms
Nico Gureli - Teeth Sharp Enough for the Biscuit
Oliver Grenda - Lesson Boy
Omok - The Baggage I Keep
Pardo De Leon - Untitled 3
Pat Frades - Give Yourself Some Time To Breathe
Paulina Perez-Hortinela - More Than Blades of Grass
Peiran Dong - The Fox Pianist
Perry Martin Mamaril - Iyot
Pio Solarta (Ricky Torre) - Sylvia
Potti Lesaguis - Bye Bye Butterfly III
Pow Marin - That Feeling.....
Qiaoyi Shi - Slide!
Quatro Los Baños - From Your Wall, to Your Stereo
Rachel Levit Ruiz - Sol
Regina Reyes - New Blooms
Rikki Driver - A Wedding in Connecticut
Robert Langgenegger - The Wolves Dilemma Regarding Functional Motivation
Rodger Stevens - Balbec
Roger Mond - Sun Bleached
Rolf Campos - Dark Inflorescence
Romeo Lee - Leescape
Ryan Villamael - Vista
Sid Natividad - Reflected Horizon
Sikuhol - Bunsong Anak ni Teteng
Soler Santos - Untitled
Sung Jin Choi - Forgotten Her
Taylor McKimens - Gift
Tekla Tamoria - Shock Value
Tezh Modarressi - Wooder Ice
Tricia Keightley - 7.7.24
Tsarlyboy Salazar - Vergel Meneses Lay Up Package EP
Viktor Koen - Rorschach
Wesley Valenzuela - Sacred Cat
Zeus Bascon - Crash! Bang! Whack! (Impact)
Ayra Sayat - Energy
Chesca Co - Of Soot and Sound 2
Miguel Lorenzo Uy - Mirage (as radiant as the sun)
Sean Sayat - Tenacity
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