munininop

by Randy Gawwi, Dehon Taguyungon and Gail Vicente

MO_Space | Gallery 2

30 May-28 June 2026

The post-pandemic building of a home disavows the anxieties of the contemporary in Gail Vicente, Dehon Taguyungon, and Randy Gawwi’s representation of the highland domestic. Things that make a home are reworked, attending to the stamina of craft tradition and its continuance through the act of dreaming or munininop.

While Gawwi and Taguyungon trace their domestic craft-making from their Ifugao cosmology, Vicente has habituated her practice to becoming a new mother. Her interventions with domestic objects, she says, are “where a disarray of daily life becomes a patterned cosmos of its own.” Making artwork in the home integrates itself into the natural constellation of activities in a home’s upkeep. In this domesticity, craft naturally incubates in the rote, mundane, and banal. But such banality is reconsidered, or in more ways reconstituted as spiritual.

—Rocky Acofo Cajigan

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