Carlos Bunga’s architectural installation in the Reina Sofía’s Crystal Palace creates the facade of stability and strength yet is actually ephemeral and even fragile.

Sabrina Boutselis
Sabrina Boutselis is a film and art history scholar currently pursuing an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and interning in the Museum’s education department. Her graduate research explores her family history and personal identity within the socio-historical context of the US and Spain’s colonization of the Philippines through film and art history research as well as the creation of her own video piece — a form of artistic investigation that merges with personal ethnography.
Kidlat Tahimik’s Subversive Retelling of the Philippines’ Colonial History
To showcase this work exactly 500 years after Magellan’s conquest of the Philippines in a space that, 134 years ago, was a “human zoo” of Indigenous people from the Philippines, is certainly poignant.