Elusive Edge: Philippine Abstraction Forms, an exhibition curated by Dr. Patrick D. Flores, focuses on expressions of abstraction in Philippine modern art.

Abstraction was a mode of thinking and making within modernism that circulated between diverse artworlds across most of the 20th century. As it moved from place to place, it morphed as a resonance and an inflection of the norm. The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, or The M, explores this transformation through the distinct history of the abstract form taking root and thriving in the Philippines. The articulation of abstraction in the Philippines, therefore, shared in the heritage of a global theory and a style, even as it translated this legacy in ways both expected and eccentric.