Sentimental Value is the first exhibition of Philippine contemporary art that introduces to the Chinese public in China a latitude of expressions from one of the liveliest art worlds in Southeast Asia. In a season when power seems to tilt to Asia, the Philippines stakes a claim, not so much to exceed the frenzy of the current market as to insinuate that between scarcity and riches is a creative sphere of emancipation. We should eternally abide by it and never wish it away despite the myriad meditations of capital and the brazen abductions of art.

 

Excerpt from Misgivings, Patrick D. Flores