Group: Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan
Artists: Celline Mercado, Jermaine Ibarra, Justyne Allen, and Lance Zuniga
Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)
In this exhibition, the concept of the shadow symbolises the lingering spectres of colonial history that follow the Filipino diaspora-Australia's fifth-largest migrant community.
Artists Celline Mercado, Jermaine Ibarra, Justyne Allen, and Lance Zuniga engage with familiar symbols of domesticity and architecture-the bed, the window, the TV-to explore Filipino identity, cultural visibility, and ancestral legacy.
Blending Indigenous Filipino, Western, and hybrid iconographies, their works reflect on a complex past, reclaiming these shadows as part of an evolving decolonial consciousness.
Globally, Filipinos form one of the most widespread diasporas. Within the dislocated space of migration, these artists both reinvent and reflect, acknowledging that Filipino identity remains deeply shaped by the Philippines' violent history of Spanish and American colonisation, and the political upheavals of the Marcos regime-events that catalysed mass migration and global dispersal. The exhibition's title is drawn from a bugtong, a Filipino riddle, with the answer being anino-shadow. These shadows of colonial history and injustice linger across time and place, ghost-like. But to hold the hand of your ghost is to face it, befriend it, play with it.
The works in this show draw from material histories and soft power, converging in forms that evoke the domestic. Celline and Justyne use furniture-beds, televisions-to question Western aesthetics and the in/visibility of Filipinos in mainstream media. Jermaine and Lance use paintings and garments to complicate the notion of a unified Filipino identity. Together, their installations construct makeshift dwellings and intimate spaces that gesture toward movement, memory, and a decolonial re/search of self.
Artists: Celline Mercado, Jermaine Ibarra, Justyne Allen, and Lance Zuniga
Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan (I have a friend; where I go, they go)
29 November 2025 - 18 January 2026
@ Incinerator Gallery - Main Gallery
Free entry
Opening night
Friday, 28 November, 6-8pm
The opening night, with speeches and a Welcome to Country, will be held at Incinerator Gallery alongside exhibitions ...and there's no one around to hear it and Brown Pillars.
❊ When ❊
Happens: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Time: Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm
❊ Where ❊
Incinerator Gallery View Venue
180 Holmes Road, Aberfeldie Victoria 3039 Map
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