Pandarayuhan: Home is a Memory (2025)

Pandarayuhan: Home is a Memory is a solo exhibition by Anna Divinagracia that reflects on the complexities of home, identity, and longing through the lens of the Filipino immigrant experience. Rooted in personal history, the exhibition deconstructs familiar symbols and spaces of a house to reconstruct what it means to create a home, especially when shaped by two vastly different places: the Philippines and Baltimore.

The show weaves together lens-based work, sculptural installations, and alternative photographic processes that contrast the two places. Divinagracia builds a visual language shaped by fragmented memory, bureaucracy, and dislocation by using photographs, family archives, and immigration documents as recurring materials embedded and collaged into the surfaces of the work. These documents act as both personal record and visual anchor, representing the quiet, ongoing tension between belonging and uncertainty. 

Pandarayuhan, meaning migration or the act of moving away, is not just about departure. It’s about the emotional labor of building something from fragments, and the quiet resistance in claiming space while also tethered elsewhere. The exhibition invites viewers to consider the quiet and often unseen details of immigrant life, the paperwork, the waiting, the adaptation.

The exhibition runs from October 23 - November 22 at Creative Alliance.

This exhibtions is made possible with support from Free Fall Baltimore.

Read more about the exhibition.