Fugitive Archives is a curatorial project curated by Saluhan collaborators MJ Flamiano and Catherine Ortega-Sandow that critically examines the role of artist-led, community-based, and independent archives as transformative tools for collective organising and knowledge production.

Fugitive Archives: otherwise or elsewhere (30 July - 16 August 2025) at MADA Gallery 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 the artist and the archive.

Featuring artists: Alfred Marasigan, Czar Kristoff J.P., Gary Lee, Lesley-Anne Cao, Nice Buenaventura, Pio Abad, Stephanie Misa, and Stephanie Syjuco.

Still photography by Thomas McCammon.