Exhibition opening: Thursday 31 July, 5-8pmJoin MJ Flamiano and Catherine Ortega-Sandow of Saluhan Collective for the opening of Fugitive Archives: otherwise or elsewhere at MADA Gallery as part of their curatorial residency at Monash University Art, Design and Architecture School. The exhibition features artists: Alfred Marasigan (PH), Czar Kristoff J.P. (PH), Gary Lee (AUS), Lesley-Anne Cao (PH), Nice Buenaventura (PH), Pagbasa Archive (AUS), Pio Abad (UK), Stephanie Misa (AU), and Stephanie Syjuco (US)—many exhibiting in Melbourne for the first time. There will be free drinks (alc and non-alc), savoury food, a brutalist cake (?!) by Catherine, and an outdoor firepit to keep you warm all evening.
When: Thursday 31 July, 5-8pm / RSVP Where: MADA Gallery, located on the ground floor of Building D at Monash University Caulifled Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East. Access via train, tram, bus, or car. Paid parking is available onsite in J carpark or along the adjacent Sir John Monash Drive or Dandenong Road.
Accessibility: MADA Gallery is step free and wheelchair and pram accessible. The gallery entrance is located on the ground level. There is easy access from Caulfield train station or the Caulfield Campus building J car park. Distance from the train station is approx. 450 metres.
Plan your trip using MADA Gallery’s useful guide here. We look forward to seeing you there and celebrating this special new project with you. With much love,
MJ & Catherine xox |
Fugitive Archives is a curatorial project by Saluhan Collective collaborators MJ Flamiano and Catherine Ortega-Sandow at MADA Gallery. Through two exhibitions and a series of public programs, the project examines artist-led, community-based, and independent archives as transformative tools for collective organising and knowledge production. Foregrounding voices from historically underrepresented positions—particularly Filipino/x and BIPOC artists—Fugitive Archives reflects Saluhan Collective’s coalitional ethos and critically engages with Monash University’s library collections and MUMA archives. Positioned within the university, the project exposes gaps in institutional representation and cultural memory. The first exhibition, Fugitive Archives: otherwise or elsewhere (30 July–16 August) unfolds through eight distinct artist projects in dialogue with the Pagbasa Archive Reading Room. Here, the fraught, the imaginary, the inaccurate, the goofy, the hidden, the desired, the forgotten, the livid, the horny, the detached, and the nostalgic emerge as fragments within each artist’s practice—drawing out the complex and ambivalent relationship between artist and archive. |
Image 1: Fugitive Archives: otherwise or elsewhere, design by MJ Flamiano featuring artworks by Czar Kristoff J.P. and Alfred Marasigan.
Image 2: Stephanie Syjuco, Block Out the Sun, 2021, digital still. |
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. |
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