Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, ‘After In-Habit’: Project Another Country, 2017
Collagraph and embossing printed from compressed cardboard on 638gsm Saunders Waterford paper
30 x 30 cm (visible), 45 x 45 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Condition: Very good, with surface accretion consistent with age.
Edition 15 of 15
Certificate of Authenticity available.
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Alfredo Juan Aquilizan (Filipino, b. 1962) and Maria Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan (Filipino, b. 1965) are a husband-and-wife artist duo known for their collaborative, large-scale installations that explore themes of migration, home, identity and belonging. Originally from the Philippines and later based in Brisbane, Australia, their practice is deeply rooted in personal and shared experiences of relocation, often drawing from their own family life and interactions with communities.
After In-Habit" Project Another Country (2017), by renown Filipino artist-duo Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, employs the motif of the Balikbayan Box (i.e. the 'repatriate or "homecoming' box), signifying movement and travel-particularly in the context of the Philippines, where objects of utilitarian and sentimental value are packed and shipped home/abroad.
Using recycled cardboard houses from In-Habit: Project Another Country (2012-2015) as printing plates, the artists stretched the possibilities of their cardboard box metaphor, creating imprints that resemble the nomadic dwellings and makeshift shantytowns of their three-dimensional counterparts.
Acquired from Singapore Tyler Print Institute.
(Photographed in March 2026)