Motion

Motion 

From the collection those that form on the surface (2023)

The piece is about identity. It is a personification of a feeling brought about by accepting hard truths and making the needed changes caused by embracing painful epiphanies we discover for ourselves.

About the artist:
Panch Alvarez is a visual artist based in Quezon City, Philippines.

Alvarez’s work focuses on two concerns: pushing for further humanitarian discourse on social and climate justice and tackling the complexities of identity muddled by centuries of colonial influence.

Accorded the Loyola Schools Award for the Arts in 2009, Alvarez was selected as a resident artist at the Sandali Art Residency (2025) and the Linangan Art Residency (2023) in the Philippines. In 2023, he was named a fellow of the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency in Italy.

Alvarez has done multiple solo and group exhibits both in the Philippines and abroad, including a recent one at the People’s Museum of Climate Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands. In 2021, one of his works was featured at an event during Art Basel in Miami, Florida.

Alvarez is the author of two books: Seasonal Adversities, an ekphrastic art collaboration with poet Joel M. Toledo; and An Apartment in Naga, a book of illustrated fiction, which has been translated into Czech and published in Czechia in 2024.