The Best Show’s to See During This Year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin

Düsseldorf-based artist Nicholas Grafia’s first exhibition at Peres Projects, ‘Free Verse Spirit’, explores the meaning of oral history within the medium of painting. In his colourful works, he combines Philippine history and folklore with pop culture to address the cultural maintenance of identities. During the Spanish colonization of the Phillipines in the 16th century, indigenous Filipinos were held captive in so-called encomienda labour camps.