To grieve is to know of a world that no longer exists, and those who remember are often beholden to sustain its afterglow. In her first solo exhibition ‘cinders always remain’, artist Corinne Fernandez Garcia confronts the fragility of memory and mortality in the wake of experiencing loss. Drawing from many La Union summers spent in her late grandmother’s garden, love songs on a warbled radio, and the magic of fleeting connections along a sunset-strewn shoreline after years of distance and isolation, she uses these intimate memories to speculate future histories.

Following her inclinations towards music, material archives, and natural history, the artworks in the exhibition range from sculpture to the moving-image, imagining new forms of artifacts and archives that might be found centuries after the artist’s lifetime—even after the world itself has finished burning.

The exhibition ‘cinders always remain’ opens at 3:30 PM on 26 April 2025 at the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library Gallery in San Fernando, La Union and is on view until 24 May 2025.

MAAWISKAYO!