“I have always sensed that though your work seems quite analytical and dispassionate that it is always about, however elliptically presented, a personal life.”
“She has confronted the tensions of rediscovering her roots and understanding the unfamiliarity of her home country. Her works draw from her unresolved conflicts in migration and memory, employing the iconic balikbayan box as an invaluable material to symbolize Philippine diaspora.”
“I was born here [in the Philippines] and grew up in America and Canada before returning here two years ago, so being a Balikbayan has been really interesting for me; I describe it as two polarities of being engaged and estranged to one’s country.”
“The works stem from the artist’s fascination with how images traverse our visual and material culture, and fall within a long-standing artistic reconsideration of the idea of painting.”
