From 20 June to 30 July, the Pelanda del Mattatoio in Rome and EXP – Caffè delle Esposizioni at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni welcome Rifrazioni , the artistic programming of SPAZIO GRIOT , a rich calendar of multidisciplinary events to reflect on the complexity of the various dimensions of the self. The program includes the artist and director Liryc Dela Cruz's first solo exhibition Il Mio Filippino: For Those Who Care To See and a public program of performances, talks, workshops, listening sessions and live sets.

The project is promoted by the Rome Department of Culture and by the Palaexpo Special Company and co-produced and organized by the Palaexpo Special Company and SPAZIO GRIOT, main sponsor Gucci , with the support of the British Council and in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome, Polo del '900 Foundation and EXP.

The exhibition presents an installation composed of four videos , three of which evoke a choreography of the robotic and militarized work of several Filipino domestic workers cleaning their employers' homes, juxtaposed with a large format video of a woman he sleeps, positioned inside a filigree chamber, made with kulambo, a temporary shelter around the resting figure. Immersed in a dystopian sound background, at times soft and dreamlike, the artist invites us to reflect on the pressure exerted on Filipinos to abandon their identity in favor of a passive and faithful domestic guise, while negotiating the methods of re-appropriation social, metaphorical and real of the Filipino self.

Engaged in the various declinations of artistic creation, from cinema to performance, Dela Cruz investigates in his works the different spheres of the culture of his country of origin, from care, to indigenous and decolonial practices, to the transpacific trade of enslaved people up to the principles of hospitality in the pre- and post-colonial Philippines, highlighting how these aspects still influence the socio-political perception of the Filipino community.