Pacita Abad
Cross-Cultural Dressing (Julia, Amina, Maya and Sammy), 1993
Oil, cloth, plastic buttons on stitched and padded canvas
Dimensions:
96 x 136 inches
243.8 x 345.4 cm
96 x 136 inches
243.8 x 345.4 cm
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE SERIES Focusing on immigrants to the global North, with particular emphasis on the US, the Immigrant Experience series takes on Abad's incisive questions about the possibilities of solidarity...
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE SERIES
Focusing on immigrants to the global North, with particular emphasis on the US, the Immigrant Experience series takes on Abad's incisive questions about the possibilities of solidarity between "third world" cultures, a poignant early-predecessor to the "South-South" discourse of the contemporary. Drawn out of her personal experience as an immigrant many times over during the course of her transnational life, the Immigrant Experience series anticipates and surpasses the limits of contemporary immigration debates by centering the lived experiences of individuals experiencing immigration, and settling into the uncertain condition we know today as the "diasporic." Making work that highlighted both the joys and injustices of this condition was critical to Abad, having been repeatedly, wrongly detained in multiple Western countries due to her status as a dark-skinned Filipino woman.
Focusing on immigrants to the global North, with particular emphasis on the US, the Immigrant Experience series takes on Abad's incisive questions about the possibilities of solidarity between "third world" cultures, a poignant early-predecessor to the "South-South" discourse of the contemporary. Drawn out of her personal experience as an immigrant many times over during the course of her transnational life, the Immigrant Experience series anticipates and surpasses the limits of contemporary immigration debates by centering the lived experiences of individuals experiencing immigration, and settling into the uncertain condition we know today as the "diasporic." Making work that highlighted both the joys and injustices of this condition was critical to Abad, having been repeatedly, wrongly detained in multiple Western countries due to her status as a dark-skinned Filipino woman.
Exhibitions
Pacita Abad, Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto. October 9, 2024 - January 19, 2025. Curated by Victoria Sung. Organized by Renée Van der Avoirdt.Pacita Abad, MoMA PS1, New York. April 4 - September 2, 2024. Curated by Victoria Sung. Organized by Ruba Katrib.
Pacita Abad, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. October 21, 2023 - January 28, 2024. Curated by Victoria Sung. Organized by Nancy Lim.
Pacita Abad, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis. April 15 - September 3, 2023. Curated by Victoria Sung with Matthew Villar Miranda.
Sweat, Haus Der Kunst, Munich. June 11, 2021 - February 27, 2022. Curated by Raphael Fonseca and Anna Schneider.
Pacita Abad: Artists + Community, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. November 17, 1994 – February 12, 1995. Curated by Angela A. Adams.
Dress Forms: The Power of Clothing, DC Arts Center, Washington, D.C. November 19, 1993 - January 8, 1994.
Literature
Victoria Sung, ed. Pacita Abad (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2023), 204-207.Pacita Abad: Artists + Community (Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994), 9-10.
