Cian Dayrit’s practice reflects and responds to the legacies of colonialism and the currentsemi-feudal and semi-colonial state of the Philippines. "Natural Histories of Struggle: Class"(2021) is part of a series that draws upon the archive of American zoologist and colonialadministrator Dean Conant Worcester. Worcester’s photographs are printed upon textiles andembroidered with texts, …
Cian Dayrit’s practice reflects and responds to the legacies of colonialism and the currentsemi-feudal and semi-colonial state of the Philippines. "Natural Histories of Struggle: Class"(2021) is part of a series that draws upon the archive of American zoologist and colonialadministrator Dean Conant Worcester. Worcester’s photographs are printed upon textiles andembroidered with texts, emblems, and adornments, thereby opening up the original archivalphotographs as an arena to reframe power-relationships and inscribe counter narratives withinthe colonial history of the Philippines. In …
