Chloe Panaligan (she/her) is an MA student in the Art History and Visual Culture Program at York University. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts, with a double major in Art History and Criminology and Sociolegal Studies from the University of Toronto.
Her current research focuses on contemporary Filipinx diasporic artists, particularly their use of ancestral materials and everyday objects to explore their cultural heritage and identity in diaspora. She explores how these objects can be transformed and reimagined, serving as vessels for memory and knowledge. She argues that the quotidian, in the works of contemporary Filipino/x artists, is indexical for a Filipino/x futurity that is unburdened by long-standing colonial narratives. Additionally, she explores how these artistic practices resist colonial oppression by envisioning Filipinx futurities beyond the legacy of Catholic missionization and Eurocentrism.
Her main goal in her research is to present these erased and untold narratives in art historical research and within the greater realm of academia.