{"id":3139,"date":"2026-10-01T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:28:16","slug":"descendants-v-opens-tonight-at-joya-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccad.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/descendants-v-opens-tonight-at-joya-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Descendants V\u2019 opens tonight at Joya Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fifth iteration of <em>Descendants<\/em>, a queer art exhibition featuring artists from the Visayas and beyond, will open today, October 2, at the Jose T. Joya Gallery of the University of the Philippines Cebu.<br><br>Titled \u201cArchives of Feelings,\u201d the exhibition invites artists to explore how queer Filipino histories are preserved when they are absent from official records and traditional archives.<br><br>The exhibition draws from scholar Ann Cvetkovich\u2019s concept of the \u201carchive of feelings,\u201d which recognizes memory, emotion, performance, gesture, trauma, oral history, and personal objects as forms of historical record.<br><br>\u201cFor Descendants, artworks are not illustrations of history, they are the archive,\u201d according to the gallery\u2019s exhibition description.<br><br>Photographs, diaries, drag performances, tattoos, scars, shared meals, and family stories can carry traces of histories that may otherwise remain undocumented.<br><br>The exhibition also aims to bring together queer artists in the Visayas \u201cto address the need for representation and visibility of experiences and identities that have historically been marginalized in Philippine art,\u201d according to the gallery\u2019s description.<br><br>Through painting, video, textile, performance, and other artistic forms, participating artists give tangible form to obscured experiences of Filipino queer individuals and contribute to a broader understanding of their place in Philippine history and culture.<br><br><em>Descendants<\/em> was first staged in 2019 at Frida Gallery in Bacolod City. 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