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Augustine Paredes - Artist; Co-Director, Sa Tahanan Co.
Augustine Paredes (b. 1994, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans photography, painting, poetry, performance, and installation to explore migration, identity, desire, and postcolonial diaspora through traditional materials and historical narratives. He has published several art and poetry books, including Slow Disco (2024), and co-founded Sa Tahanan Collective with curator Anna Bernice delos Reyes. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Paulina Caspari (Munich), Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai), and Museum Wiesbaden (Germany). Paredes is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship (2023) and the Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship (2025).
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Bernice delos Reyes - Co-Director, Sa Tahanan Co.
Anna Bernice delos Reyes is a Filipino independent curator, writer, cultural researcher, and communications strategist based between Berlin, Dubai, and Manila. An alumna of New York University Abu Dhabi, her work focuses on arts, culture, heritage, and architecture, often exploring diaspora, migration, and colonized bodies through social research and cultural context. She has collaborated with institutions like Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Art Jameel, Sharjah Biennial 16, and the Philippine Arts for Venice Biennale, and contributed to publications including Canvas Magazine, Vogue Philippines, and Dazed Middle East. In 2020, she co-founded the Filipino art collective Sa Tahanan Co. with artist Augustine Paredes.
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Jam Moreno - Project Manager, Sa Tahanan Co.
Jam Moreno is a filmmaker, multimedia artist, and arts administrator from Davao, Philippines. A recent New York University Abu Dhabi graduate in Film and Business, his work explores domesticity, consumption, and everyday resistance through Filipino material and visual culture. His docufiction short Sari-Sari (2024), about women-led micro-stores in southern Philippines, has screened at Binisaya International Film Festival (Cebu), Sharjah Film Platform, and Alserkal Avenue’s What The Food exhibition (Dubai). Alongside his independent work, Jam has supported international performances and festivals across the Middle East and Southeast Asia and is currently collaborating on the inaugural music programming for the Doha Film Festival in Qatar.
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Leon Luebe - Artist
Leon Leube is a Filipino-German artist born in 1992 in Nürnberg, Germany. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg in 2018. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
He explores how life in the tropics becomes entangled with global systems of infrastructure and technology. His research-based practice draws on personal experience growing up in the Philippines, and investigates how power structures shape identity and material culture.
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Pauline Doctolero - Artist
Pauline Doctolero is a multi-disciplinary designer and visual artist currently based in Dubai. Her self-initiated projects look at ways of witnessing and remembering through moving images. She was previously an artist fellow at the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan (SEAF) Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2022.
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Martin Yambao - Artist
Martin Ong Yambao is an artist based in Manila and Dubai whose work explores the impermanence of memory and its ties to individual and collective experience. Working with moving images, painting, sculpture, and installation, he uses found materials to investigate fragmentation, erasure, and remnants of pre-colonial knowledge within post-colonial contexts. He is also one half of memoryall, a media art studio creating site-specific installations and performances that blend collective narratives with architectural and historical settings.
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Alexis Convento - Artist
Alexis Convento (she/they) is a 2nd-generation Filipino-American artist based in Berlin. Working as Ulam, Alexis creates immersive experiences that blend personal storytelling, edible installations, and performative scores, linking ancestral narratives with themes of labor and care. Their projects include Kamayan feasts inspired by the Manila Galleon Trade Route, a cocktail designed to be tasted as tears, and intimate spoon-feeding interactions. Alexis is also Head of Production and Planning at LAS Art Foundation.
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Jou Pabalate - Artist
Jou Pabalate is a Filipino strategist, editor, and curator based in Riyadh. As Strategy Director of &bouqu, she leads narrative masterplanning, program ideation, and curatorial research across arts, culture, design, tourism, and edutainment. She plays a key role in Saudi Design Festival and Saudi Design Week and was Assistant Curator for Saudi Arabia’s National Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Jou also founded Ahlan Alaala, an archival project documenting the Filipino diaspora in Saudi Arabia from the 1970s to 2000s.
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