Kawayan de Guia: Excavations from the land of not so plenty presents large-scale assemblage paintings incorporating sculptural elements, antique imagery, and sourced trinkets that form layered mind maps of a wider reality. Raised in the Cordillera of the Philippines amid ancestral knowledge systems attuned to interdependence, de Guia positions the human not as center but as a singular element in a complex cosmology. Through accumulated materials at once geopolitical and intimate, his work dissects colonialism's ghosts and erased histories, holding space for overlooked iconographies and cultural memories with elegance and haunted earnestness.
