SOIL-BEINGS (Lamánlupa)
→ 2024—2025













































We cannot continue to see soil as mere backdrop to the dramas of human history. It is the history. The soil is alive, even in its contamination, yet the soil still breathes. It still grows. It remembers.
19th Venice Biennale of Architecture (Mostra internazionale di architettura di Venezia)
Philippine Pavilion 2025

Venice, IT
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
Office of Senator Loren Legarda
Cur. Renan Laru-an
Art. Christian Tenefrancia Illi




































Our bodies, like soil, are sites of sedimentation—formed by histories of displacement and accumulation. The act of standing on soil is never neutral. The ground beneath us carries the weight of forced migrations, lost land, burned fields, and desecrated forests.

Soil moves, and it moves us with it.