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Sensible Forms: Essays by Patrick Flores

Featuring Patrick Flores & Tina Colayco

Philippine Stand Event

The wellspring of Patrick Flores’s attentive seeing of art is as much in the mind as it is in the eye. When reading him we behold thoughts taking shape on the printed page; words, phrases, sentences, and punctuation marks are sensed as settling into forms, palpably, when writing on art.

When reading these interpretive meditations, we are moved to enlist Flores’s company while seeing and thinking on art-a prospect consummately illuminating in its anticipation.

T.K. Sabapathy

Adjunct associate professor and lecturer in history of art, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore

Oktober 16, 2025 16:00

Hall 5.1 A95 & B95, Pilipinas Space, Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

Philippine Stand

Meet the Speakers:

Stylized portrait of a person with short hair and glasses on an orange background.

Patrick Flores

Patrick Flores is the Chief Curator at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS). He is concurrently a professor at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. In 2015, he curated the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Biennale. In 2022, he was the curator of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Flores was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow in 2004. Among his publications are Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Remarkable Collection: Art, History, and the National Museum (2006); and Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008). He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (2010); a member of the Advisory Board of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 (2011), organized by the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe; and a member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council (2011). 

He co-edited the Southeast Asian issue with Joan Kee for Third Text (2011). On behalf of the Clark Institute and the Department of Art Studies of the University of the Philippines, Flores organized the conference, Histories of Art History in Southeast Asia in Manila. He serves as the curator of the Philippine Pavilion for the country’s role as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025.