Miguel Aquilizan and Jessica Dorizac, Pilgrimage: Remote Animism & Ornamental Displacements (detail), 2024. Courtesy: the artists and The Condensery, Toogoolawah.

Pilgrimage: Remote Animism & Ornamental Displacements forms part of a continuing series from the collaborative practice of husband and wife artists, Miguel Aquilizan and Jessica Dorizac. In their life and work they navigate through culture, colonization, history, geography, folklore and faith as contemporary Australian Filipinos.

In the Pilgrimage series, they explore the interconnected themes of identity, globalisation, culture, colonization and resistance through a playful sculptural installation. Located in The Condensery’s Bomb Shelter, this iteration is a new body of work produced in Australia, since Aquilizan and Dorizac have returned from practicing in the Philippines.

In Pilgrimage: Remote Animism & Ornamental Displacements, the sculptures fragment and rebuild themselves, making possible the reimagining and re-enchantment of the world around us, during a time of ecological emergency and political confusion.