Igkas sa Lilim ng Gawi expounds on hybridity as an abstraction, translation, and expression of concepts pertaining to land, artefacts, and customs. The presentation, which originates from a material-culture background, suggests how materiality and/as metaphor interact, as both inhabit and embody meanings drawn from shared experiences, human–nature ties, rituals and the cosmos, survival, and socio-cultural order.
Allyza Tresvalles, an artist and cultural worker from Lucban, Quezon, extends the materiality of craft beyond form, meaning, and function. She combines traditional crafts such as weaving, pottery, and metalwork with modern forms like painting, sculpture, and installation art, while remaining mindful of how craft is entwined with history and carries both spiritual resonance and communal purpose. The works presented here oscillate within contemporary circulations of ideas of movement, awakening, memory, transmission, healing, survival, and community, while also acting as vessels and vehicles for the reimagination and reconstruction of preexisting beliefs and practices.
For Allyza, Igkas sa Lilim ng Gawi is a living body that learns as it makes, processes as it transforms. A leap that tests the boundaries of materials, stretching them until they reveal new meanings and possibilities for survival. In this unfolding, craft becomes not only a record of the past but a language of continuance—a way not merely to remember, but to endure.
