Something Meant For You When You Welcome Me Back: Translocal Material Entanglement Across
a Global Arkipelago
2023
Essay
This exhibition is accompanied by a series of take-away publications—one for each participating artist—that together form the show’s catalog.
My contribution, Something Meant for You When You Welcome Me Back, is a personal essay written following an extended stay in the Philippine archipelago. The text reflects on palm-leaf weaving, the customs of pasalubong (souvenir-giving), and how these practices intersect with my own ways of making. It also considers the entanglements of tourism and imperialism in the Majority World, and the questions that arise for me as a visitor in my own homeland.
The full essay, along with writings on the other artists’ works, can be found at the link below.
READ THE FULL CATALOG HERE
My contribution, Something Meant for You When You Welcome Me Back, is a personal essay written following an extended stay in the Philippine archipelago. The text reflects on palm-leaf weaving, the customs of pasalubong (souvenir-giving), and how these practices intersect with my own ways of making. It also considers the entanglements of tourism and imperialism in the Majority World, and the questions that arise for me as a visitor in my own homeland.
The full essay, along with writings on the other artists’ works, can be found at the link below.
READ THE FULL CATALOG HERE
