WORN WORLDS
Acts of Repair and Threads
of Peace in the Wake of Discard





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Worn Worlds explores the cultural, material, and emotional lives of secondhand clothing and cast-off goods through the lens of ukay-ukay—where imported used clothing is resold, reimagined, and refashioned. Featuring works from the UKAI (Unearthing Knowledge, Arts and Interdependence) Initiative, the exhibition highlights how everyday materials discarded by the Global North take on new significance in the hands of artists, communities, and cultural workers.  

Through installations, textiles, and community-rooted practices, the exhibition surfaces questions of global consumption, environmental injustice, and diasporic memory. Amid histories of upheaval and dispossession, it gestures toward the quiet, everyday work of stitching connections and tending to what has been frayed.  Through gestures of care and reclamation, the exhibition proposes pathways toward mended relations, making whole what has been fractured, materially and socially.


FEATURING
Marion Aguas
Abby Manwiller
Rennel Lavilla
Glenn Philip Martinez Aquino
Eyecan Creatives
Mari Islas-Hall
Cecilia Lim
Jaclyn Reyes
Ryan Santos Phillips & Gisela Zuniga
Ezra Undag
Andre Zarate
ABOUT UKAI INITIATIVE

Worn Worlds is a project of UKAI Initiative by Little Manila Queens Bayahinan Arts.