Kato'ng Gipangsabwag Gikan sa mga Langit (Those Who were Scattered by the Heavens)

To grow is an attestation to existing. As a process, growing requires space and time. Though it inhibits physical change, growing remains temporal. To grow remains contingent on natural or man-made situations. 

This durational piece reflects the vagueness and temporality of labor migration. In an age where moving to and from destinations to seek “greener pastures” is steadily shifting geopolitics and global ideologies, it is important to take consistently into account labor migrants. In many layered ways, these bodies embody one of the most precarious existences there is. 

Mad House Helsinki, 13. – 20.09.2019

Photo Credits: Christy Ann Balita and Saara Autere