Situated between the digital, the physical, and the imaginary, Brandon Aquino Straus’ work consists of video, installations, sculpture, and paintings in which he researches and examines the cultural amnesia and entangled histories of the United States and the Philippines.

In parallel, he navigates his own contemporary experiences of diaspora and returning. The vocabulary of his work comes both from turn-of-the-century museum collections, and the language of tourism and leisure. He navigates material culture, anthropology, and archives of natural history as tools to examine both past and contemporary representations of the Philippines. His work seeks to make connections across time that resist the authority of colonial interpretation by recasting narratives of power and cultural inheritance