*Marceline Belardo

Marceline Belardo’s works intersect references to religion, myth, history, and literature with her personal approach to abstraction, making heavy use of gestural brushwork, dripping paint, and chaotic mark-making. Her works dance on the boundary between the divine and physical, envisioning a spirituality that bleeds, melts, and breaks. Belardo imagines history via the body, constantly moving, damaged, and remade.

Born in Manila, Belardo earned a degree in Film in 2019 from the University of the Philippines. She is also a musician, a poet, and a playwright. Her works have been performed on stages across Manila as part of Deus Sex Machina, including at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She moved to Ankara, Turkey with her family in 2023, where she began painting.