Milan-based Filipino artist Richard Gabriel reimagines footwear as sculpture in If the Shoe Fits. Eighteen mixed-media shoe works and six oil paintings turn function into feeling with wit, color, and Filipino flair. Resin, rattan, terracotta, ceramic, and porcelain replace leather, then meet velvet and fur. Inspired by Milan’s design spirit and memories of home, Gabriel’s crafted forms celebrate imagination, mood, and the pleasure of making.

Blic is a self-taught Filipino street artist known for a personified hand crowned with a smile, an emblem of connection born from kawaii pop and city walls. After a Rome debut in 2020, his works showed across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, with auction listings since 2022. As a co-founder of Cavite’s Cavity Collective, he keeps expanding a visual code that travels from the street to the gallery while staying playful, bold, and direct.

Rene Cuvos builds dreamlit worlds where reality softens and time slows. Daydreaming guides a practice that stages Renaissance-inflected scenes balancing order and chance. Figures, ruins, and horizons recur like anchors while mist and ripple complicate stillness. For Cuvos, art is alignment. His paintings invite patient looking, offering refuge and outlook, and proposing attentiveness as a quiet form of courage for anyone willing to linger.