FIFTY years have passed since Lopez Museum’s doors first opened and sought a public for its trove of what was then loosely imagined as “Filipiniana.” This half-a-century post-ness brings with it notions of evidence for reconsideration, looking back and ultimately, moving forward. The exhibit After the Fact at the Lopez Museum is given to questions such as “What and how did we do? Then what?”
As “after” summons appropriative gestures and attempts to establish lineage and a re-collected past, this exhibition assembles remnants of what has transpired, what is present in the collection, and what is perceived as needing attention if the museum continues to aspire to a wider breadth and substantive depth in the working narratives that its exhibitions and attendant public programs present.
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