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24 September 2021-
15 January 2022

Artists
Lesley-Anne Cao︎︎︎
Fyerool Darma︎︎︎
Jean Claire Dy︎︎︎ 
 bani haykal︎︎︎
 Ariko Ikehara︎︎︎
Tuan Andrew Nguyen︎︎︎
Elia Nurvista︎︎︎
Ahmad Fuad Osman︎︎︎
 Sim Chiyin ︎︎︎
Simon Soon and
Munirah Mansoor︎︎︎
Isola Tong︎︎︎
 Ming Wong︎︎︎
 Yee I-Lann︎︎︎

Artworks from the Vargas
Museum Collection︎︎︎

Paintings from Diosdado
Macapagal's Collection︎︎︎

Archives
Macapagal's trip to Africa︎︎︎
Macapagal's Maphilindo︎︎︎
Speculative Archive of Maphilindo︎︎︎
Student-led demonstration (1965)︎︎︎
A Weekend with Richard Wright︎︎︎
African American Writers in SEA︎︎︎
Huey Newton’s Manila Chair︎︎︎
Blaxploitation films (1971-1974)︎︎︎
Apocalypse Now (1979)︎︎︎
All videos are courtesy of Jorge B. Vargas Museum
and Filipiniana Research Center.

Hosted at the UP Vargas Museum in Manila, Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities is the second exhibition of a long-term and iterative research project that situates Southeast Asia as a compelling coordinate to review the continued resonances of global solidarities. The exhibition pursues the thematic threads of racial presence, anti-colonial struggle, and the interventive ways of navigating colonial and neocolonial relations through Southeast Asia. The title of the exhibition is spun from a 1962 novella authored by Han Suyin, a Eurasian physician, novelist, and public intellectual with Chinese and Belgian parentage. It was one of the last books she published while living in Malaya. The exhibition focuses on the complex regional historical milieu that Han worked in as an important source of illumination in the history of archipelagic Southeast Asia and the discourses around geopoetic aspirations and geopolitical affinities.


View Gallery︎︎︎
Booklet︎︎︎ 
Exhibition Opening︎︎︎
afrosoutheastasia︎︎︎

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