Join GYOPO and Pilele Projects for a special walkthrough of a collaborative two-person exhibition by Sid M. Duenas and Isa Gagarin titled Talåyan Langhet. Translated literally to "sky net" in English, Talåyan Langhet evokes an image of a CHamoru talayeru throwing a circular fishing net in shallow ocean waters. Duenas and Gagarin’s work employs the idea of a fishing net as a conceptual framework for their collaboration, which draws connections between their distinct visual and material approaches; it also functions as a metaphor for the fragmented nature of their respective CHamoru-language fluency. In his multi-media work, Duenas builds poetic textual elements including bilingual phrasing and compound words. Gagarin’s recent work plays with the ochosyllabic structure of Kantan Chamorrita, composing original songs that accompany her paintings as a way to pursue CHamoru-language thought frameworks in her creative process.

Accompanying Duenas and Gagarin’s exhibition is an open-edition poster produced by Pilele Projects.