UP College of Fine Arts senior student Alapaap Coquilla and her father, Dansoy Coquilla, opened their joint exhibition Tingala’t Yuko: Paano Magtagpo?, curated by Marz Aglipay at vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery, Estancia Mall.

The exhibit explores connection, perspective, and the spaces where generations meet, creating a visual dialogue between two artists shaped by different experiences and ways of seeing.

Alapaap’s works focus on her identity, body, and experiences as a young woman, embracing self-acceptance and the freedom of being fully oneself. Using the worm’s-eye view, she positions the viewer at ground level, looking upward—evoking the perspective of a child filled with wonder and curiosity.

Her featured works include A Woman’s Statement (2025) and A Woman’s Space (2025), with some created during her exchange program at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea, adding another layer of cultural and personal growth.

Meanwhile, Dansoy’s work complements his daughter’s perspective by alternating bird’s-eye and worm’s-eye views, capturing the pulse of grassroots communities and reflecting the energy and tension of mass demonstrations, including the widespread protest in September 2025 at Mendiola.

By shifting between elevated and grounded perspectives, he underscores how ordinary people navigate social, political, and structural challenges—seen both from above and from the ground where they stand.

The exhibit also features collaborative works such as Black Spaghetti 02, where their viewpoints converge: a crowd looks upward at tangled wires from above, while from below the chaos clears, symbolizing that understanding emerges not by choosing one view over another but by recognizing the space where they meet.

As curator Marz Aglipay explains, “Through these opposing yet connected gazes, Tingala’t Yuko reveals how generations meet—not in sameness, but in a shared act of looking toward each other from different ground.”

The exhibition is on view until November 30, 2025, at vMeme Contemporary, Estancia Mall East Wing, Capitol Commons, Pasig City, offering a rare opportunity to witness a father-daughter dialogue where perspectives become a pathway for understanding.

For those inspired to bring a piece of this exhibition home, works by Dansoy and Alapaap Coquilla are available for purchase through vMeme Contemporary’s online shop.
https://www.vmemecontemporary.com/shop