Between Starshine and Clay IV continues its examination on the Filipina’s becoming, drawing from Lucille Clifton’s question of how one shapes a life without a fixed model. 

The fourth iteration of this exhibition with Altro Mondo Creative Space gathers works that sit in tension between the intimate and the inherited, the emotional and the material, where womanhood is understood as something continuously formed through lived experience, memory, and self-reflection. Rather than offering a singular narrative, the exhibition presents multiple ways of inhabiting the self, shaped by care, resilience, and vulnerability.

The exhibit presents works by Michelle Alde, Justine Llarena, Tricia Salonga, and Lala Jara Tuazon, bringing together practices across figurative painting, abstraction, and mixed media. The works explore interior spaces, embodied experience, emotional release, and the slow accumulation of meaning over time. Across varied visual languages, the artists engage with themes of softness as strength, the body as a site of agency, and the reflective spaces, mental, emotional, or domestic, where selfhood is negotiated and reclaimed.

Presented in celebration of Women’s History Month, Between Starshine and Clay IV affirms the evolving voices of Filipina artists whose works speak to the complexity of becoming. It honors lives shaped not by prescribed paths, but by the courage to attend to inner worlds while remaining deeply connected to the realities that surround them, finding form somewhere between aspiration and ground, between starshine and clay.