Drawing Room Manila

24/04/2026

Booth 5A-55, installation view at Art Brussels 2026

A focused two-artist booth pairing Kelli Maeshiro and Atsuko Yamagata brings together distinct material practices that address how identity and form are shaped through change.

Kelli Maeshiro () works through labor-intensive processes of dyeing, binding, and layering, drawing from traditional Japanese techniques alongside synthetic materials. Her installations and sculptural works reflect a transnational experience, where identity is constructed through accumulation and marked by memory, displacement, and the tension between preservation and loss.

Atsuko Yamagata ( / ) builds her compositions by introducing natural forces such as air and water into the making process. Working with paper, dye, glue, and thread, she produces works that register time and environment, allowing form to emerge through chance, movement, and sustained attention to landscape and history.

The booth positions these practices in clear dialogue: one shaped through personal history and controlled intervention, the other through openness to external forces and unpredictability. The result is a considered presentation of how material can carry transformation across memory, environment, and lived experience.

Art Brussels 2026
Brussels Expo, Brussels
April 23–26, 2026

16/04/2026

Jorem Biadoma
Windows Inside A Window
(left to right)

View
Interlining patch worked on twill
121.92 x 82.55 cm
2026

Flight
Interlining patch worked on twill
131.5 x 36 cm
2026

To Change
Interlining patch worked on twill
52 x 26 cm
2026

Biadoma's current exhibition runs until Saturday, April 18.

15/04/2026

Final week to view our current exhibitions:

Diokno Pasilan — Suitcase Islands
Trek Valdizno — Fata Morgana
DengCoy Miel — Marginalia
Jorem Biadoma — Windows Inside a Window
Bert Antonio — (when the past meets the present,) will you recognize you?

Viewing ends this Saturday, April 18

14/04/2026

Bert Antonio
A selection of three works from:

(when the past meets the present,) will you recognize you?
Mixed media
2024 - 2025

Antonio's current solo exhibition is on view until April 18, Saturday

13/04/2026

Trek Valdizno
Left to right, clockwise:

Magic Spell
Acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 122 cm
2026

Incantation
Acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 122 cm
2026

Illusion
Acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 122 cm
2026

The Ocean
Acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 122 cm
2026

Fata Morgana, Valdizno's current solo exhibition, runs through this week until April 18, Saturday.

13/04/2026

: Through their unique material practices and depth, the works of Atsuko Yamagata and Kelli Maeshiro articulate powerful narratives about personal and collective identities in constant flux.

Presented by The Drawing Room (Manila)
Booth 5A-55
Discoveries
Art Brussels 2026

11/04/2026

DengCoy Miel
Telescoping Colonialism / E Pluribus Regnum (King Philip II as Ngimey Ngouse and his Other Guises)
Acrylic on canvas, variable sizes (polyptych)
2026

Marginalia, DengCoy Miel's current solo exhibition, runs through April 18

09/04/2026

Diokno Pasilan
Sleeping Beauty
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 122 cm
2026

Pasilan's current solo exhibition, Suitcase Islands, is on view until April 18

08/04/2026

08/04/2026

: Three fairs. Three different directions.

This quarter, we move through Art Brussels, HIVE Art Fair, and Hotel Art Fair: returning to some, stepping into others for the first time.

In Brussels, Atsuko Yamagata and Kelli Maeshiro.
In Seoul, Dominic Mangila.
Bangkok unfolds as a wider presentation.

The gallery engages with platforms that approach format and presentation with openness, creating space for its artists within these contexts, and allowing each place to meet the work in its own way.

06/04/2026

Jorem Biadoma - Windows Inside a Window

Jorem Biadoma’s practice moves between fashion, textile, and image-making, shaped by repetition, sentiment, and personal engagement with material. His work reflects a sensitivity to structure, layering, and the tension between minimal and maximal forms.

Windows Inside a Window considers preparation as a quiet, ongoing act, where patchworked textile becomes a record of choice, attention, and the gradual formation of intent.

On view through April 18

06/04/2026

We’re pleased to return to Art Brussels 2026 with a two-person presentation by Kelli Maeshiro () and Atsuko Yamagata (), brought together through a shared attention to how identity is formed across memory and material.

Working between Manila and Honolulu, Maeshiro builds her works through layering, binding, and reworking—materials that hold the tension of distance and inheritance. Her practice treats identity not as something recovered, but assembled over time, shaped by what is carried and what is lost.

Yamagata, based between Japan and the Philippines, approaches material differently. Her works emerge through process: dye disperses, paper absorbs, thread gathers and shifts. Form is not fixed but allowed to unfold, guided by environment and time. What appears is less constructed than arrived at.

Together, the presentation holds two distinct approaches to change—one deliberate, one responsive—both grounded in lived movement across places.

📍 Booth 5A-55, Discovery
Art Brussels 2026
Brussels Expo
April 23–26, 2026