Virtual Lecture with Artist Maia Cruz Palileo
Tuesday December 5
7 to 8 p.m.
Free to members, $5 Future members 

Join Maia Cruz Palileo as they explore and reveal the themes of migration and the persistence of tacit knowledge in the face of assimilation featured in their exhibition Days Later, Down River. The works on view map an archival, geological, and spiritual topography of the Palileo family’s homeland—the Philippines—and are inspired by their recent residency at the University of Michigan, which houses one of the largest collections of Filipino artifacts outside of the country. 

Translating these historic archival documents into a creative medium, Palileo cuts out archival images and reassembles them into panoramas where figures occupy mirrored and layered landscapes, offering new dimensions that intertwine ancestry, flora, and fauna. Transferring collaged black-and-white photographs into a vibrant palette, they pollinate a reimagined terrain in paint—an act of becoming where brush strokes render their homeland anew with self-possession and agency.