Spectral Embrace [part ii] is a collection of art-objects made during the artist’s graduate degree.
A view of the gallery from the entrance. 07.25.
Spectral Embrace [part ii] is a counter-archive that collapses the boundaries of past and present and gives space for diasporic remembrance.
The artist’s nieces looking at a lightbox containing a photograph of the artist at 6y.o. 07.25.
These objects recontextualize colonial histories through a decolonial lens, using the colonial archive of the Philippines (1898-1946) as a site of study. While rooted in the artist’s lived experience as a mixed-race Filipinx raised in Bermuda, the installation blends archival and familial photographs to rupture linear time, reveal continuities of imperialism across time and space, and give back autonomy to the nameless faces within the archive. Each altar, warmly lit, is an offering to the ghosts interned within the archive.
A visitor strolling through the gallery. 07.25.
After-Image. 2025. Plywood, mylar, paper, and led lights.
