AMY LIEN & ENZO CAMACHO

Offerings for Escalante marks the first major US museum exhibition of artist duo Enzo Camacho (Filipino, b. 1985) and Ami Lien (American, b. 1987). For over a decade, Camacho & Lien’s multidisciplinary practice has addressed geopolitical relations by attending to localized forms of dispossession, survival, and resistance, particularly in the context of the Philippines. Through moving-image works, a light-based installation, as well as a suite of handmade paper compositions, Offerings for Escalante centers the Philippine island of Negros, known for its sugar plantations. A newly commissioned long-form film, Langit Lupa, draws upon survivor testimonials to narrate the story of the 1985 Escalante Massacre, a tragic incident of state violence against a mass protest in Negros under the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. Laying bare the brutality of plantation societies, Offerings for Escalante emphasizes remembrance and mourning within ongoing struggles for land justice, food sovereignty, and anti-imperialist resistance.