Lk Rigor’s practice moves along the matrices of researching, writing, curating, and archiving.

Her plane of interest spans (but is not limited to) the following:

archival photographs as a tool to interrogate history,

formation and activation of archives in contemporary art,

curatorial play in alternative spaces,

&

thoughtful and experimental transmission of texts
as carriers in knowledge production.

As an independent researcher, her current focus is finding women photographers in the Philippines who were active in the post-World War II era (1946-1960s). This project is supported by the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund of the Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Foundation. She has presented portions of this research in Calle Wright (2025) and in the now-defunct artist-run space Baraks (2024) as part of her residency.

As a cultural worker in Manila, she wears many hats: coordinator at the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, curator and event organizer at 98B COLLABoratory, curator-at-large at artbooks.ph, editor at Writing Foto, project assistant at Alfredo F. Tadiar Library, among others. She has also contributed to Cartellino, ArtAsiaPacific, and TheCollector.

In 2024, she was part of an exchange program for art practitioners organized by Taiwan Art Space Alliance and Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation. In 2025, she attended Writing as Infrastructure: Workshops for Arts Professionals in Para Site, Hong Kong.

Finally, she is at the last stretch of finishing her master’s degree in Art Studies (Curatorial Studies) in University of the Philippines Diliman.

^{Bio updated Jan 14, 2026}